The Lives of the Saints, Vol. 12 of 16

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Excerpt from The Lives of the Saints, Vol. 12 of 16: October Part II The first tokens of a change were a weariness of the soul. It was unsatisfied. The miserable affection for persons in the world could lead to nothing 5 life in a convent was a mere pretence whilst her heart was busy with friends and acquaint ances. She felt this at last, after some years, and while in this mood of disgust and dissatisfaction the Confessions of S. Augustine was put into her hand. This wonderful book produced a change in her soul. The anguish of the great saint in breaking with the world and loved ties were intensely realized by her. She made the resolve to snap the bonds which attached her to earth, and give up her heart wholly to God. Her hysteria now took a new form. It developed a condition of ecstasy and vision which was very extraordinary. She was dissatisfied with her confessors, no doubt with jus tice: they had allowed her to go on for some years without making any progress, without attempting to correct her privately, and point her to a higher path. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.