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e forced to write, so important did it become ;we will therefore content ourselves with alludingto a few of the more salient points in its story.This ancient and illustrious town is built underthe shadow of the Apennin'es, at a point in thatchain of mountains almost midway between theAlps and the Mediterranean. It is on the bordersof Umbria, seven miles from Norcia, ten fromLeonessa, thirty from Rieti, and twenty-threefrom Spoleto. It stands on the site of the ancientCursula, whigh is believed to have been a Romanfree-town-that is, its people enjoyed the honours,rights, and privileges of Roman citizenship, andtheir town was governed by its own laws. ThatCursula was a town of some importance is attestedby its remains, which are still extant, notably bythe Temple of the Augurs, the Temple of Mars,and the House of the Duumviri.We have nothing else than these remains toguide us in inquiring into the history of Cursula,nor can we surmise the epoch from whence to dateits existence. We know from ~ioi~sius of Halicamassusthat it was destroyed, and that a newtown rose on the ruins of the original one, butthe dates of these events cannot be fixed withcertainty. The date of the rebuildmg of Cursulamay, with some probability, be placed at somethingmore than ten years before the birth ofPrivate Use Only
our Saviour, and hence its pagan inhabitantswere strengthening the foundations of its futuregreatness when Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem,was laying the foundation of the Redem$tion ofman. We know, too, that it was a republic, butare left in the dark as to how it managed to achieveand preserve its independence. It is crediblethat, like other Italian cities, it acquired itsliberty at the time of the second fall of the RomanEmpire, after the death of the Emperor-SaintHenry, during the Pontificate of John XIX., orabout the year 1025. -This independence itretained till 1260,' in which year, through theambition of rival leaders, the seeds of civicdissension were sown, and the republic was exposedto dangers from without. It was at thistime that the people of Cascia determined to putthemselves under, the authority of Alexander IV.,who then occupied the Papal chair. They wereinduced to this action by what they saw of thepeaceful nature of the Papal government, andbecause they adhered to the Guelph party, whichwas favourable to the Holy See. Alexander IV.was the great Pontiff who, uniting the greatestvirtues to the highest mental attainments, contrivedduring the height of the sanguinaryquarrels between Guelphs and Ghibellines, whichlxd for twenty years tom and divided Italy,More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com
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Page 10 and 11: to stamp out incendiarism, to crush
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Page 16 and 17: -nearly so, as Angelus and Louis of
Page 19 and 20: CHAPTER I1IIIIFTHE fortunate parent
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Page 30 and 31: Italian tyrants were not sufficient
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Page 34 and 35: many thorns. Yet such was the dispo
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Page 46 and 47: Tobias, who, although he was the yo
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plunged into the dangerous cares of
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CHAPTER IXRITA AS WIFETHE Apostle's
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justice' sake, she took every care
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was named Gian Giacomo, and the oth
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If ever she deemed it necessary to
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death reached the ears of his widow
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the fear of judgment and of hell, t
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prayer,* according to St. Paul's in
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ness of the night and went to sacri
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Rita led in the world, where she wa
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The government of the Church, then
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how the incident is related by the
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which these extraordinary events oc
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and praising the Most High, they pu
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CHAPTER I1RITA AS NOVICE : HER PROF
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except alone some prescribed corpor
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the mystic ladder of charity, whose
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observed to the last letter-a princ
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In order more easily to carry out h
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penance for their past transgressio
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her affections soared towards heave
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yoke of that heavenly love ; fortit
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Iher youth, and was now become an u
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CHAPTER VTHERE is a love which is t
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duties of the various offices she f
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She conquered also the second stron
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Yet the holy penitent lived there c
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and to conquer them she had recours
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CHAPTER VIHOWEVER hard and sharp pe
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Virgin, of all the saints of the Or
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ough bristles, and on the inner sid
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The same wonderful effects of grace
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Jesus Christ. It almost seems as if
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the gifts of wisdom and intelligenc
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CHAPTER VIIIRITA had lived thirty y
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Passion-the chief object of Rita's
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thenceforward as long as she bore t
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principally to the merits of St. Ni
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of the season, and she pushed forwa
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CHAPTER XRITA survived seven years
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ever thanking Divine Providence tha
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1pitied her, and went back to Rocca
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spite of the pains and sorrows of d
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time overturned the Empire of Const
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about to acquire greater renown thr
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LIFE OF ST. .RITA OF CASCIAseemed a
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Apostolic men, yet after her death
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e cured, and touched the saint's sa
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which the clergy took part, and a s
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who declares that he took his accou
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daughter of Domenico of Logna, who
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suffering torture from the gravel,
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occasion she informed him who she w
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the daughter of Giovanni di Silvest
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for having saved her nephew, who ha
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CHAPTER I11EFFICACY OF .RELICS OF S
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the relic, which was wrapped in a p
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in the side, and was almost at deat
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We have already made mention of tha
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CHAPTER IVIT was the Almighty's wil
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ut, on the contrary, has brought sp
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itself for a moment and then sink b
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etc., not only, etc., but in every
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CHAPTER VIMMEMORIAL WORSHIP OF ST.
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used to be observed in an ordinary
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countries remarkable for devotion t
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The convent cell, too, which Rita s
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However, at the time in which the h
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approval on sanctification and publ
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ut the most distinguished for his l
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CHAPTER VIIMIRACLES WORKED BY RITA
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Cavalieri of Cascia, was in the yea
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which is able even to move mountain
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Augustinian nuns adorned with hangi
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have been obtained in every country
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holy Virgin and to various saints,
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and had reduced her to a condition
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' I, the undersigned, testify that
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heal. She had before received many
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advocate, who is called the Saint o
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all hope in human aid, she, With he
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pray for him.' They also gave him a
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eathe. I remained a long time sitti
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'On the 28th of last June, in the f
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one another, and turn their steps t
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the day, was able to take his meals
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the 27th of January, 1896, about fi
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their pardon for the grief he had c
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practices, regained sight and stren
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of their course get a Government ce
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that she could not fix her mind on
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your pardon. Oh, grant me the favou
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are you, 0, blessed sister ?' said
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all things regulates in number, wei
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Elisabetta Bergamini, who had been
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conclusion before much more time sh
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the sight of her eyes, so that she
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corn in it to play with. As soon as
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vev loud voice to make him hear, an
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move his arms, and, calling his wif
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sexes, have each in the life of thi
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