New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-16

ST. RosE OF LrMA.-St Rose of Lima, canonze1
by Clement Y, A. ID, 1873 was the most precocious
Of soinie. Bonn OF Christian parents IN South Amen
ca She from the period of her birth, shone with the
presag,s of future holiness. II is sal that the face OF
the infant being miraculously TRANSFERRED into the
IMAGE of a rose Occasonod her being called by this
name 10 which the Virgin Mary added the surname
commanding her thenceforh to be designated the
Rose of st. Mary. She vowed perpetual virginity at
the early age of five years The following affecting
account OF the austerihes she pracieed is extracted
from the bull of her canonzation, and affords pitia
bic specimen of religious fanaticism:
She changed Tie stones and crosses with which,
when going to prayer in her childhood, and yet *
norant of the use of whips, che was loaded by her
maid Marianne, who was almost the only person con-
scious of her mortihcations into iron chains which
she prepared scourges and after the example of ST.
Dominic, every night she offered herself bloody VIC
tim TO God to his just anger even TO the copous
eusion Of streams of blood, either for the soows of
the holy Church, for the necessities OF the endap
cered Kingdom of the city of Lima, or for compensat-
ing the wrongs of sinners, for making an expiaton
for the souls of the dead for obtaining divine AID
for those who in their last agonies-the servant
being sometimes horror struck at the dreadful blows
of the chains And whom the use OF these were for
hidden her, she privately encrced her waist with
one of them. bound thrice around her, so that II
never was apparent that she wore IL, except when
she was under the tortures of the sciatca, which
chain was afterward loosened only by miracle.
Its links after the virgins death were found 10
emit wondrous and indescribably sweet odor Lest
suffering she tortured Der arms and limbs with penal
chains and stuffed her breasts and sides and with hand
fuls Of neties and small hriaTs. She afterward in-
creased the sharpness OF the haircloth that reached
from her neck beneath her knees by needles mixed
with H. which she used for many years, until she was
ordered to put il off account of the frequent vomt
ING of blood When abe laid aside this punishment
abe substituted another garment less injurious TO her
health but not less troublesome; for beneath II every
movement was painful TO her. Her feet only were
fee from these suerngs, which, either by hitting
them with sonos or by the burning OF an oven, she
did not suffer TO be free from torture.
"She fixed upon her head tin crown with sharp
little nails in IT, aud for years never put II ON
without receiving wounds. When she grew Older
this replaced by one which was armed by ninety
nine poin s.
"She desired the hardness of her bed TO be such
that it should il should rather drive away than invite
sleep; so that when about sleep the same should Oe
both bed TO her and an instrument of torture Her
pillow was either unpublished trunk or stones con
cesled for this purpose which bed she afterward so
filed with sharp pieces Of tiles ayd triangular pieces OF
broken jugs that the sharp points Of each should be
turned to her body; did she try to sleep until she
had embt.ered her mouth with a draught of gall
" Near the time of her death Rose, throughout
Lent, alternately sang the cantices and praises OF
God every day for whole hour"
honssc Institutiops their Origin, Progress Nature and
Tendeney. BY Samuel Phillips Day.