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favors, graces and benefits, which each of the saints had
received at his hands. She asked them to intercede for
the holy Church, and for all those who were fighting its
battles and were still
encountering the danger of losing
the crown. After this She remembered also and gave
thanks for the victories and triumphs She herself had
attained through the divine power over the demons.
Finally She added new canticles of humble and fervent
thanksgiving for Herself, and for all the souls to be
snatched from the powers of darkness.
691. It is a subject of astonishment to men, as it was
to the angels, that a mere Creature in mortal flesh should
accomplish so many incessant wonders, which would have
appeared impossible to multitudes of souls united to
gether, even if they had been as ardent as the highest
seraphim; but our great Queen certainly participated in
something of the omnipotence of God, which made easy
for Her what for other creatures would have been im
life her
possible. In these last years of her most holy
activity increased to such an extent, that there was no
cessation or relaxation in her operations so as to exceed
all our powers of comprehension; for She was not any
more hindered by the mortality and weight of human
nature, but operated like the indefatigable spirits, and
more than all of them together and She had become one
;
devouring flame and conflagration of immense activity.
To her divine virtues all her days seemed short, all
occasions few, and all her exercises limited; since her
divine love continually tended to exceed all bounds of
what She was doing, though that was without limit. In
comparison with what her activity was in reality, all I
have said is little or nothing I am bound to confess and
:
assert my deficiency in this regard, because I see an abyss
or distance as it were infinite between what has been
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