St. Angela Merici, and the Ursulines
Publisher: Burns and Oates
Published: 1880
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS.; title: ARCHIEPISCOPAL APPROBATION iii; title: DEDICATION v; title: AUTHOR'S PREFACE. vii; title: CHAPTER I.; title: INTRODUCTORY : SUPERNATURAL ATMOSPHERE OF ITALIAN HOMELIFE IN THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES.; title: Supernatural Sanctity, how Prevalent among all Classes of Italian Society 1-2; title: Italian Saints contemporary with the Parents of Angela Merici 8; title: Living Saints of Upper Italy about 1474 4; title: B. Caterina da Palanza 4; title: B. Maddalena Panatieri 4; title: St. Cajetan of Tiene and his Mother 4; title: St. Jerome Emiliani 5; title: B. Margaret of Ravenna 6; title: Influence of Women in Cultivating this Abundant Growth of Sanctity 7; title: Saints Laving in 1540, at the Date of Angela Merici's death 7, 8; title: 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; title: Uncanonized Saints ; how numerous 9, 10; title: Saintly Personages not the Rare and Gigantic Flowers of Equatorial Regions ; but the Sweet and Modest Flowers wiiich Thrive in every Land 10, 11; title: Angela Merici and her Sister's early Virtues as Compared with some Holy Contemporaries 12; title: St. Veronica of Milan and her Parents ; a Poor Peasant Family 12-14; title: Their Ideal of Christian Holiness as Familiar to the People of Upper Italy, as the Way of Cultivating the Vine  16; title: The noble Catharine Fieschi-Adorno of Genoa ; her Married Life ; her Life in the Cloister ; her beautiful Writings 15-19; title: The Transforming Love of Christ Crucified in St. Ignatius, St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis of Assisi 20-23; title: The last named Saint and the Stigmata ; the Fire and Light which Enwrapped Monte Alvernia 23; title: This Sacred Fire Burning Brightly at the Birth of Angela Merici 25-27; title: CHAPTER II.; title: BIRTH AND PARENTAGE OF ANGELA MERICI.; title: The Lake of Garda and the town of Desensano 29; title: The Merici and Biancosi 30; title: Spiritual Influences Surrounding the Home of the Merici 31, 32; title: The Observantines of St. Francis 33; title: The Merici, Ardent Admirers of Heroic Sanctity  33; title: Uncommon Pains taken by Angela's Parents to Cultivate the Love of Heroic Piety in their Children  33; title: Nightly Reading In common of the Lives of the Saints 33; title: Angela's Early Admiration of these Heroic Men and Women 34; title: Her Early Efforts at Imitation of Them 84; title: Her Beauty in Childhood ; her Generosity, Wisdom, and Self-control 34; title: How she Resented being Complimented on her Beautiful Hair 35; title: Her Parents Encourage while Controlling the Ascetic Fervor of Angela and her Sister 36, 37; title: A Happy and Blessed Home 37, 38; title: CHAPTER III.; title: ANGELA'S FIRST BITER TRIALS.; title: Why her First Communion was Delayed; Concourse of Circumstances which were Unfavorable to Frequent Communion and Confession in the Italy of three Days 39, 40; title: Divine Economy of the Eucharitstic Sacrament and Sacrifice 41; title: Angela's Merici's Intense Happiness at the Table of the Lamb 43; title: Growth of Angela in Spiritual Loveliness ; the Bright and Pure Atmosphere of her Home ; Precautions taken to Shield the Soul of Girlhood from the Knowledge Evil 48; title: Angela's Early Vow of Virginity not the Result of Temptation; but Inspired by The Love of Perfection 41, 45; title: She Loses her Father in her Fifteenth Year 46; title: She Devotes herself to her Widowed Mother 47; title: Her Sister becomes her Guide in Spirituality 47; title: Their Pious Remembrance of their Father's Soul 48; title: Her sister Dies Suddenly within the Year after her Father's Death 60; title: How both Girls had Grown in Supernatural Perfection during these years: the Mystery of Life in the natural and supernatural Worlds 52, 53; title: Vision in which Angela beholds her Deceased Sister among the Blessed ; She is Bidden to Persevere in the Better Way 54; title: Effect of such Miraculous Visions on Chosen Souls like Angela's 65; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: UTTER DESOLATION.; title: The vision sent to Angela probably helped to Prepare her Mother for Death 57; title: Signora Merici Sickens and Dies in less than a year after her daughter 58; title: Secret Purpose of Providence in these trials 59; title: The Girl of Seventeen and her Brother taken to Said by their Uncle Biancosi 50; title: Magnificent Situation of Said ; Foichanting Scenery of the Lake Shore Northward of Salo. 61, 52; title: Interior Trials which assail Angela at this Period ; she and her Brother Resolve to lead the Life of Hermits in the mountains 63-55; title: They Leave Salo Secretly ; but are Brought Back 67; title: Angela even then Popularly Designated as "a Little Saint from Paradise;" the two Orphans held up by Parents as models for all Children 69; title: Angela Loses her Brother in her Twenty-second Year 69; title: CHAPTER V.; title: BACK IN THE OLD HOME.; title: She Is Welcomed by her Townspeople and finds a Companion, who takes her Sister's place 79; title: The Process by which God perfects Chosen Goals in detachment from all things 73; title: She Loses her Adopted Sister 78; title: Young Persons of her own Age drawn to Angela 73; title: The Vision at Brudazzo, in which Angela beholds a Company of Saintly Virgins ; and is Commanded to Found one like it in Brescia 75,76; title: Increase of Fervor caused by this Second Vision 77; title: To become a frequent Communicant she Joins the Tertiary Order of St. Francis 77; title: Angela Merici may be justly called the Seraph of Christian Schools 77; title: Why St. Francis of Assisi is called the "Seraphic." 77; title: Protestant Testimony to the (ienuineness of his Seraphic Spirit 78; title: A Pregnant Lesson for all the Christian Men of To-day 78; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: THE PATERNAL HOME OF DESENZANO CONTINUES TO BE ANGELA'S SCHOOL.; title: How Angela Spent Seventeen Years in the Home of her Childhood 79; title: Grateful Testimony borne by her Fellow-Citizens 79; title: Her House a School for Young and Old 80; title: Imperious Circumstances which rendered Impracticable the Founding of a New Order in Brescia 81; title: Her Saintly Influence over her Young Countrywomen 83; title: Why Angela could not in Desensano open a School for Children like Our Schools of To-day 83; title: Printing was then only in its Infancy 83; title: What High and Low learned in Angela's School 83; title: The Noble Family of the Patengoli from Brescia cultivate Angela's acquaintance 83; title: They desire to have her Reside in Brescia 84; title: Situation of Brescia ; Its History 85; title: Occupied by the French in 1513 85; title: Horrible Butchery of 32,000 Brescians by the French, under Gaston de Foix 86; title: The ruined City restored to Venice in 1516 80; title: Jerome Patengoli Loses suddenly his two Children 86; title: Angela Merici sent to Brescia by her Superiors 87; title: Her Delight in Visiting the Venerable Churches of the City 88; title: Her active Charity 88; title: The Ruinous Condition of Brescia forbida her thinking of Founding her Society 89; title: She is offered a Home by Antonio dei Romani 89; title: She visits the Tomb of B. Osanna Andreasi in Milan 90; title: Is Welcomed at Solferino by the Gonzagas 90; title: State of Upper Italy in 1522 92; title: Angela feels Impelled to Visit Jerusalem 93; title: Qeneroos Proviaion made by Venice for Pilgrims to the Holy Land 93; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: LIGHT IN DARKNESS.; title: Founders of Religions Orders the passionate lovers of Christ Crucified 94; title: Ignatius Loyola a Pilgrim to Jerusalem in 1523 95; title: Angela Embarks for Palestine in May, 1524 97; title: She is suddenly struck Blind on the Way 97; title: Insists on Continuing her journey 97; title: Her Raptures in Jerusalem and Bethlehem 98; title: Memories which Enlighten her in Christ's Birth-place 100; title: St Jerome, St. Paula, and her daughter Eustochium 101; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: THE LIGHT INCREASING.; title: Return from Jerusalem through Rama. 104; title: Angela recovers her Eyesight Miraculously 108; title: Dangers from Storms and Pirates 108, 100; title: Angela esteemed, under God, the Pilgrims' Preserver 100; title: Admiration of the Venetians for her 111; title: She Escapes secretly from the City 112; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: WAITING AND WORKING.; title: Angela warmly Welcomed by the Brescians 118; title: Key Obstacles to Angela's Designs 114, 115; title: She goes to Borne for tUe Jubilee of 1525 116; title: Explains her Vision to Pope Clement VII 118; title: Returns to Brescia 118; title: War-Clouds over Borne and Italy 119, 120; title: CHAPTER X.; title: INSUPERABLE OBSTACLES.; title: Charles V. and Francis I. distract and devastate Upper Italy 121; title: Brescia Paralyzed ; Religious Improvement impossible 122; title: Angela's Self-Crucifixion amid these Calamities 128-126; title: She is more than ever the Guide and Comforter of all Classes 127; title: The Duke of Milan takes her for his Spiritual Guide 128; title: Angela is obliged to take Refuge in Cremona 129; title: She becomes the Public Comforter there 130, 131; title: Vigorous Intellectual and Moral Life of Upper Italy in those Days 132, 133; title: Angela taken III and at Death's Door 135; title: Her sudden Restoration to Perfect Health 136; title: She makes a Pilgrimage to the Sacred Hill of Varallo 137; title: Sudden Cessation of Hostilities 138; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: THE FOUNDATIONS AT LAST.; title: Vision of St. Ursula and her Companions 140; title: Delays enjoined on Angela by her Confessor 142; title: The first Twelve Ursulines 148; title: The high Aim Angela set before her Companions 144; title: Second Pilgrimage to Varallo 145; title: The Duke of Milan would have them stay in his Capital 146; title: Angela fixes her Abode near the Church of St. Afra. 147; title: Increase of the Associates 150; title: Why Angela sought the Aid of noble Widow Ladies 151; title: How timely this Organisation was for Italy 152; title: How Nature repairs Wounds and Losses in Tree and Flower ; and how God repairs them in His Church 153, 154; title: Reforms by renovated Home-life and Education 155, 156; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: WHY ANGELA CALLED HER SISTERHOOD "THE COMPANY OF ST. URSULA."; title: The Legends concerning St. Ursula and her Band of Virgin-Martyrs 157; title: The simple Historical Facts 158; title: The Popular Legends in Upper Italy 159; title: St Ursula and the Venetian Painters 160; title: St. Ursula accepted as Patron Saint by the great Universities of Christendom 161; title: Another Vision in which Angela is urged to hasten her Work. 163; title: The Company of St. Ursula formally inaugurated 168; title: First Inauguration of the Society of Jesus. 164; title: Fundamental Conception of an Ursuline's Life 165; title: Why Angela did not wish to Oblige her Maiden Sisters to make Religious Vows 166; title: She excludes no Class of the Deserving 167; title: Simple Dress of the Sisters 167; title: Their Charity and Humility 167; title: The wide Interest taken In them 168; title: The word "Company" suggestive of a Militant Life 169; title: The two Great Armies who contended for Souls in the Italy of the Sixteenth Century 169; title: Outlines of Angela's Organization 170; title: How the Spirit of God directs Holy Men and Women 171-174; title: The Nineteenth Century like the Sixteenth 174, 175; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: ANGELA'S WORK — THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE COMPANY OF ST. URSULA.; title: Her Self-Crucifixion while drawing up the Constitutions of the Company 176; title: The Cardinal-Bishop of Brescia approves them 179; title: Angela is unanimously elected Superior-General 181; title: Election of the other Officers 182; title: The Spiritual Directors of the new Company 188; title: Was the Education of Young Girls the main purpose of Angela? 185; title: Testimony of the Holy See to the First Apostle of Female Education 185-187; title: Testimony of St. Charles Borromeo 188; title: Brief Mention of Education in the Constitutions 189; title: Angela wished to Educate in the Bosom of each Family 190; title: Her Main Purpose to be Directed by Providence 191; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: THE LAST LABORS AND TRIALS — MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNSELS — THE STRONG WOMAN SETTING HER HOUSE IN ORDER.; title: Delay In Obtaining the Approbation of the Holy See 193; title: Opposition in Brescia to the Secular Dress of the Sisters 195; title: Angela's Persistence in Prayer and Austerities 197; title: Beginning of her Last Illness 199; title: She appoints a Mother-Vicar 199; title: Dictates her Ricordi and her spiritual "Testament" 199; title: Summons the Lady-Counselors to hear the Ricordi read 200; title: Admirable Counsels of the Dying Saint 201-213; title: CHAPTER XV.; title: THE GATES AJAR — LOVE STRONG IN DEATH — THE PILGRIM AT REST.; title: The Spectacle presented by the Sick-room at St. Afra's 214; title: The disheartening Circumstances which color Angela's last Counsels to her Daughters 215; title: The Motherly Tenderness she enjoins toward her Sisters 217; title: Virtues which these are to Practice 219; title: They are to Cherish above all Things the Honor of their Divine Spouse 219; title: Ever-present Aid promised to them in Christ's Name. 219; title: Angela sits up in h xr bed to repeat the "last Reminder" 220; title: Deep Impression made on all Present 220,231; title: Consternation in Brescia 222; title: Her last Words to a few noble Friends 223; title: Her scrupulous Care to prepare herself for Burial 224; title: She receives the Last Sacraments 225; title: Her angelic Devotion 226, 227; title: Angela Merici's Mission 228; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: A SAINT'S TESTAMENT AND LEGACIES — A PEOPLE'S GRATITUDE AND VENERATION — INCORRUPTION LASTING THROUGH CENTURIES.; title: Angela's "Testament and Legacies" to her Daughters 280-240; title: Instructive Veneration of the Sanctity by the Catholic Heart 240,241; title: Extraordinary Affluence from City and Country 242; title: All proclaim her "Blessed" 243; title: Delay in her Burial 248; title: Veneration in all Ages for the Remains of the Saintly Dead 244; title: The Delay of Thirty Days most Providential 245; title: Prodigious Concourse of Pilgrims, and other Prodigies 245; title: The Holy Remains preserved Incorrupt 246; title: The Painters of Brescia at work around the Bier 247, 248; title: End of the Delay ; the Solemn Entombment 248; title: Tributes to the Saintly Dead 248; title: A Scoffer Rebuked and Converted 250; title: Changes made In Angela's Tomb 251; title: Its Appearance and that of the Saint's Body in 1867 252-254; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: THE "ODOR OF SANCTITY" AND POPULAR VENERATION — MIRACULOUS FAVORS OBTAINED - DELAYS IN ANGELA'S BEATIFICATION AND CANONIZATION.; title: The Good or ill Odor diffused by every Christian's Life and Death 255; title: Flocks in Alpine Regions attracted to their Mountain Pasture by the Fragrance of Spring Flowers 255; title: The People of God drawn to the Shrines of his Saints by  "the Sweet Odor" of Christlike Holiness 256, 257; title: The Popular Veneration toward Angela Merici 258-260; title: The Honors paid to her tacitly Sanctioned by the Holy See 261; title: This Cultus becomes Universal 262; title: First Judicial Proceedings toward Beatification 264; title: Delays in Rome caused by the Dissensions with Louis XIV 265; title: She is solemnly Beatified by Clement XIII 266; title: Translation of Blessed Angela's Remains 267; title: Appearance of the Body on this Occasion 267; title: Contrast between this Triumph of the Ursulines and the simultaneous Downfall of the Jesuits 269, 270; title: Proceedings for Blessed Angela's Canonization 270; title: She is solemnly Canonized 271; title: CHAPTER XVIII.; title: MIRACLES, AND VIRTUES AS MARVELOUS AS MIRACLES; title: Irresistible Authority of Miracles 273; title: The Miracle-working Power to abide in the Church 274; title: The Three Great Miracles wrought by St. Angela, and accepted by the Congregation of Rites 275-281; title: St. Angela's Heroic Virtues 282; title: Her Prudence 285; title: Her Temperance 291; title: Her Justice 291; title: Her Fortitude 291; title: Her Supernatural Faith, Hope and Charity 292-294; title: CHAPTER XIX.; title: ST. ANGELA'S CONSTITUTIONS.; title: They are her Principal Literary Production 295; title: They breathe the Apostolic Spirit which passed into the Constitutions of the various Ursuline Congregations 296; title: They deserve to be Preserved lovingly by Angela's Daughters. 296; title: Text of the Constitutions 297; title: CHAPTER XX.; title: THE URSULINES: THEIR VARIED FORTUNES IN ITALY — PRIMATIVE  CONGREGATION OF BRESCIA — HOW THEY FARED IN MILAN — URSULINES OF VENICE, PARMA, FIACENZA, FOLIGNO, AND ROME.; title: Dangerous Controversy about the Dress of the Ursulines 337; title: The Ursulines in Desenzano and Salo. 339; title: " Cremona 341; title: " Milan 342; title: The Milanese Ursulines living in community and bound by vows. 344; title: The Ursulines In Venice 340; title: " Genoa 345; title: " Panna 346; title: " Pianceza and Foligno 347; title: The Roman Ursulines 347; title: The Uncloistered Ursalines of SS. Bofina and Seconda 348; title: The Cloistered Ursalines of the Via Vittoria, founded by the Duchess of Modena 348; title: Vicissitudes of The Roman Ursulines 351-358; title: Existing Monasteries of Calvi, Stroncone, Seeto-Calende, Cannobio,; title: Galliate, Omegna, Miaaino, and Saloszo 358; title: Fate of the Congregation of Breada before and since the French Revolution 354; title: Swept away by The First Napoleon 355; title: Only a Single Monastery of Cloistered Nuns since 1827 355; title: The Primitive Ursalines of Bresda retiring under Pius IX 357-350; title: CHAPTER XXI.; title: THE URSULINES IN FRANCE — CONGREGATIONS OF AIX, BORDEAUX, PARIS, LYONS, AND TOULOUSE.; title: Frances de Bermond, of Avignon, the Angela Merici of France 380; title: The First French Ursuline Establishment at L'Isle, near Avignon 362; title: Frances de Bermond and Cardinal de Sonrdis, of Bordeaux 368; title: The Cardinal visits Milan. 364; title: He Chooses Frances de Cazeres to Found the Ursulines of Bordeaux. 365; title: The Ursalines of Bordeaux become a Congregation of Cloistered Nuns 366; title: Their Apostolic labors Described by Pope Paul V 360; title: The Ursulines of Paris ; their beginnings 371; title: Blessed Mary of the locamation (Madame Acarie) and her cousin, Madame De Sainte Beuve 371, 373; title: The Parisian Ursulines become Cloistered 373, 374; title: Mother de Bermond Recalled from Paris to Aiz 374; title: She Founds the Monastery of Lyons 377; title: Her Establishments wonderfully Multiplied 378; title: The Lyonnese Congregation accept the Cloister 379; title: Death of Mother de Bermond 370; title: The Congregation of Toaloose 380; title: The "Ladies of Mercy of St. Ursula" 381; title: Extraordinary Fenror of the Toalouse Ursulines 381, 382; title: Other Congregations in France. 383; title: CHAPTER XXIII.; title: OFFSHOOTS OF THE FRENCH URSULINES THROUGHOUT THE GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN EMPIRES, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES, IRELAND AND ENGLAND.; title: Marvelous Fecundity of the Congregations of Bordeaux and Paris. 384; title: Temporary Suppression of the Ursulines throughout Germany and the Low Countries by the French 384; title: "The May Laws" 385; title: Landshut and Breslau 385; title: The other Ursuline Schools of Austria-Hungary 385; title: The American Ursulines:; title: Quebec and Three Rivers 886; title: New Orleans 387-389; title: The First Ursulines in New York Unsuccessful 389; title: The Ursulines of East Morrisania 389; title: The Ursulines of Boston 390; title: The Tragic Story of the Charlestown Convent 391; title: Archbishop Purcell and the Ursulines of the Western States 398; title: Nano Nagle and the Irish Ursulines 898; title: The Monastery of Black Rock and The Ursulines of South Carolina 394; title: The Monastery School of Valle-Crucis, near Columbia, cruelly Destroyed by Sherman's Army 395; title: The Ursulines In England : The Monastery of Upton, a Colony from Sittard in Limburg 395; title: The Abbe Lambert and the "Independent Ursulines" of Belgium. 396; title: The Conditions under which Religious Communities can prosper among Modem Peoples 396