St. Angela Merici, and the Ursulines
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- St. Angela Merici, and the Ursulines
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St. Angela Merici, and the Ursulines
Author: O'Reilly, Bernard, 1820-1907
Year: 1880
TABLE OF CONTENTS. ARCHIEPISCOPAL APPROBATION iii DEDICATION v AUTHOR'S PREFACE. vii CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY : SUPERNATURAL ATMOSPHERE OF ITALIAN HOMELIFE IN THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. Supernatural Sanctity, how Prevalent among all Classes of Italian Society 1-2 Italian Saints contemporary with the Parents of Angela Merici 8 Living Saints of Upper Italy about 1474 4 B. Caterina da Palanza 4 B. Maddalena Panatieri 4 St. Cajetan of Tiene and his Mother 4 St. Jerome Emiliani 5 B. Margaret of Ravenna 6 Influence of Women in Cultivating this Abundant Growth of Sanctity 7 Saints Laving in 1540, at the Date of Angela Merici's death 7, 8 In Rome, Ignatios Loyola, Francis Xavier, Philip Neri ; elsewhere, Charles Borromeo, Michael Ghisleri (St. Pius V.), Francis Borgia, St. Gamillo de Lellls, St. Felix Cantalici, St. Andrew Avellino, BB. Paul of Arezso, Alexander Sauli, and Benedict Filadelf 8, 9 Uncanonized Saints ; how numerous 9, 10 Saintly Personages not the Rare and Gigantic Flowers of Equatorial Regions ; but the Sweet and Modest Flowers wiiich Thrive in every Land 10, 11 Angela Merici and her Sister's early Virtues as Compared with some Holy Contemporaries 12 St. Veronica