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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Birth and Family of Catharine Burton
- CHAPTER II The English Teresians at Antwerp
- CHAPTER III Introduction to her Autobiography
- CHAPTER IV Early Years
- CHAPTER V First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VI First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VII Continued Suffering
- CHAPTER VIII Consolations and patience
- CHAPTER IX Favours and Trials
- CHAPTER X First Devotion to St. Francis Xavier
- CHAPTER XI The ten Fridays repeated
- CHAPTER XII Miraculous Cure
- CHAPTER XIII A second miracle
- CHAPTER XIV Passing the Sea
- CHAPTER XV In the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVI Advance in Prayer
- CHAPTER XVII Second year in the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVIII Among the Professed
- CHAPTER XIX Employments and Crosses
- CHAPTER XX Sub-Prioress and Mistress of Novices
- CHAPTER XXI Union with God
- CHAPTER XXII Anecdotes of Religious Life
- CHAPTER XXIII Visions of Purgatory, Hell, and Heaven. The Spiritual Exercises
- CHAPTER XXIV Mary Xaveria when Prioress
- CHAPTER XXV Spiritual History
- CHAPTER XXVI Recollections of the Religious
- CHAPTER XXVII Confidence in God
- CHAPTER XXVIII Religious Virtues
- CHAPTER XXIX Last Sickness and Death
- CHAPTER XXX After Death
- APPENDIX
CHAPTER XII - Miraculous Cure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Birth and Family of Catharine Burton
- CHAPTER II The English Teresians at Antwerp
- CHAPTER III Introduction to her Autobiography
- CHAPTER IV Early Years
- CHAPTER V First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VI First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VII Continued Suffering
- CHAPTER VIII Consolations and patience
- CHAPTER IX Favours and Trials
- CHAPTER X First Devotion to St. Francis Xavier
- CHAPTER XI The ten Fridays repeated
- CHAPTER XII Miraculous Cure
- CHAPTER XIII A second miracle
- CHAPTER XIV Passing the Sea
- CHAPTER XV In the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVI Advance in Prayer
- CHAPTER XVII Second year in the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVIII Among the Professed
- CHAPTER XIX Employments and Crosses
- CHAPTER XX Sub-Prioress and Mistress of Novices
- CHAPTER XXI Union with God
- CHAPTER XXII Anecdotes of Religious Life
- CHAPTER XXIII Visions of Purgatory, Hell, and Heaven. The Spiritual Exercises
- CHAPTER XXIV Mary Xaveria when Prioress
- CHAPTER XXV Spiritual History
- CHAPTER XXVI Recollections of the Religious
- CHAPTER XXVII Confidence in God
- CHAPTER XXVIII Religious Virtues
- CHAPTER XXIX Last Sickness and Death
- CHAPTER XXX After Death
- APPENDIX
Summary
As I drew near the end of this devotion, I began to have again great troubles of mind and temptations, so that as soon as I had confessed, I was obliged to call again for my confessor. My ghostly father was strangely surprised to see the troubles I had, which were, I think, worse than ever. I remember the last Friday but one having called for him the second or third time before I could communicate. As he went from my bedside, he turned back and said he thought God designed to try me in all things, and he did what he could to comfort me. I had now less hope of the Saint's curing me than ever, because I had heard in the relation of the miracles that towards the end of the devotion they used to grow better, and I found myself worse in body and mind. Yet I had some little spark of hope left, though very much darkened, that the Saint would obtain for me what was most for the good of my soul. I was sometimes in such anguish that I had very little sense of this, and was often tempted not to go on with the devotion, nor to ask other prayers, thinking all would do me no good. But God gave me grace to overcome this, and to beg all the prayers I could. I procured some Masses to be said, and some alms to be given the last Friday, though I did all this with a kind of repugnance.
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- An English CarmeliteThe Life of Catharine Burton, Mother Mary Xaveria of the Angels, of the English Teresian Convent at Antwerp, pp. 76 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1876