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and the crowds that thronged onhim for relief in their various necessities, scarce allowed him a momentto breathe. He isincapable of imperious haughtiness, which alienates the minds ofinferiors, and renders their obedience barely exterior and a forcedhypocrisy. tohis divine will, to subdue all their passions, and to subject all theirpowers to his holy love. His grief,he says, was just, because he wept for a soul that was fallen fromheaven to hell, from grace into sin: it was reasonable, beca

ith permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copiedand distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any feesor charges. The saint often met with injurious treatment,and very reviling words, which he ever repaid with such meekness andbeneficence as never failed to gain his very enemies. Footnotes:1. eived the religious veil in the convent of Dominicanesses atPrat, in Tuscany, to which her uncle, F.