The life of Saint Rose of Lima
Publisher: Peter F. Cummingham
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Philadelphia, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: I. Her country, her birth, her inclinations, and the vow of virginity which she made at the age of five years 21; title: II. Her obedience, the respect she had for her parents, and the assistance she rendered them 28; title: III. S Rose takes the habit of the Third Order of S. Dominic, in imitation of S. Catherine of Sienna, whom she had taken for her model 37; title: IV. Her humility, her incomparable purity of heart, and other virtues 44; title: V. Her fasts, her disciplines, and the other austerities with which she macerated her body 52; title: VI. Of the sharp-pointed crown which she wore on her head, and of the hardness of her bed 64; title: VII. Of her solitude, and the hermitage which she had built in her father's garden, that she might live quite separated from men 75; title: VIII. Jesus Christ espouses the Blessed Rose in the presence of the ever Blessed Virgin 84; title: IX. Of the close union with God to which she attained by means of mental prayer 91; title: X. She is tormented with interior pains to so frightful a degree that she is examined by some divines, who declare her state to be from God 98; title: XI. Of the familiar manner in which Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin, S. Catharine of Sienna and her Guardian Angel conversed with her ; and of the victories which she gained over the devils who tempted her 109; title: XII. Of her invincible patience under persecution, in sickness, and in her other sufferings 121; title: XIII Of her love for her Divine Spouse Jesus Christ, and of the miracle which she entreated Him to work to inflame the hearts of men with His Divine love 129; title: XIV. Of her devotion towards the most Blessed Sacrament, in defence of which she once prepared herself to suffer martydom 140; title: XV. Of her devotion to an image of our Blessed Lady, to the sign of the Cross, and to her dear mistress S. Catherine of Sienna 150; title: XVI. Of her zeal for the salvation of souls, and her care in assisting the poor in their sickness and necessities 161; title: XVII. Of her confidence in God,and of the protection she received from Him in her necessities 174; title: XVIII. God makes known to S. Rose that a monastery of nuns will be built in Lima, under the name of S. Catherine of Sienna, and reveals to her several other secrets 181; title: XIX. Of her last illness and death 188; title: XX. Of the honour which S. Rose received after death, and of the translation of her body which took place some time afterwards 203; title: XXI. Of the revelation which several persons had of the glory of S. Rose 219; title: XXII. Of the miracles which Almighty God worked through the merits of S. Rose 225; title: 1. Of the conversions which the prayers of S. Rose obtained 226; title: 2. Two dead persons raised to life, and many miraculously cured by touching the body of S. Rose, and invoking her assistance in their infirmities 233; title: 3. After St Rose's death many sick persons were restored to health, and several women assisted in their labour, by touching her veil or some part of her dress 240; title: 4. Several persons afflicted with dysentery, quinsey, fever, frenzy, and other maladies, have been cured by powder from the sepulchre of our Saint 245; title: 5. Pictures of S. Rose applied to persons afflicted with leprosy, quinsey, gout, headache, and other infirmities, have been the means of restoring health to them 252; title: XXIII. Of the efforts made at Rome to obtain from the Pope her canonization 236