The lives of St. Catherine of Ricci, of the Third Order of St. Dominick, St. Agnes of Montepulciano, B. Benvenuta of Bojan, and B. Catherine of Racconigi, of the Order of St. Dominick
Publisher: Thomas Richardson and Son
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: THE LIFE OF ST. CATHERINE OF RICCI.; title: I. St. Catherine's birth and education 1; title: II. The Saint returns to her father's house, and enters the monastery of St. Vincent at Prato 6; title: III. The Saint's constancy in remaining in the monastery 10; title: IV. Her return to the monastery— her clothing and profession 13; title: V. On the Saint's great faith and hope 20; title: VI. The Saint's great love of God 22; title: VII. Her prayers, devotions, fastings, and penances 31; title: VIII. Her ecstasies and raptures  33; title: IX. Examinations of Catherine's spirit 51; title: X. Espousals, stigmata, and other favours which St. Catherine received from Jesus 66; title: XI. On the visions in which St. Catherine saw Jesus, the Most Holy Virgin, and other saints of the Church militant and triumphant 76; title: XII. On Catherine's great charity towards her neighbour 84; title: XIII. St. Catherine's exact observance of her vows, rules and constitutions 93; title: XIV. On the Saint's profound humility 101; title: XV. Of the heroic manner in which the Saint exercised the four cardinal virtues 111; title: XVI. Of the discernment of spirits, prophecies, and apparitions of St. Catherine 118; title: XVII. On the miracles wrought by St. Catherine during her lifetime, and the great fame of her sanctity 126; title: XVIII. On the Saint's last illness and happy passage to another life 130; title: XIX. The graces and miracles worked by God through the intercession of St. Catherine after her death 141; title: XX. On the events which took place after Catherine's beatification 151; title: XXI. On the miracles which were approved of for the canonization  of the Blessed Catherine of Ricci 153; title: THE HISTORY OF S. AGNES OF MONTEPULCIANO.; title: PART I.; title: SECTION I.; title: 1. Preface. —   2. Birth of Agnes. —   3. Her education and youthful fervour . —  4. Origin, fortunes, and condition of Montepulciano. —  5. Her parents permit her to retire from the world. —   6. Her reception in the monastery of del Sacco. —   7. Her noble and virtuous disposition. —   8. Her miraculous rapture. —   9. Her piety. —   10. Our B. Lady appears to her. —   11. Increase of Agnes' fervour 169; title: SECTION II.; title: Agnes goes to Proceno and founds a monastery there. — She is elected abbess. —  Miraculous shower of manna. — Our Saint's contemplative life. —   She is favoured by a heavenly apparition. —   An angel communicates her, and brings her some relics. —   Some wonders are worked by Agnes' intercession. —   The austerity of her life at Proceno. —   The power of her prayers with God. —   Her illness, and the events of it. — She is refreshed by a vision. —   The spirit with which she governed the monastery. —  Her union with God. —  She goes for some time to Montepulciano, and returns to Proceno 194; title: PART II. SECTION I.; title: Agnes is inspired to undertake fresh enterprises. —   She returns to her country. —   Revolutions in Montepulciano. —  Agnes commences the building of a monastery ; of which she is made superioress. —  She gives a bright example of perfection. —   Her wisdom and prudence. —  She introduces the rule of St. Dominic in her new monastery. —   Her care to promote religious observance. —   Her spirit of solitude and peace. —   The walls of the monastery fall down and are rebuilt. —  Agnes' journey to Rome, and the incidents of it. —   Her  return to Montepulciano. —   Her internal lights. 222; title: SECTION II.; title: Agnes makes further progress in piety. —   The events of this period of her life. —   Her confidence in God's help. — She delivers a possessed man. —   Her humility. —   She cures a nun who had lost her sight— She multiplies the bread. —   Her anxiety for the instruction of her religious. —   She receives a warning of future evils. — Her illness, and journey to the baths of Chianciano. — The wonders which happened to her there. —   Her gentleness. —   She returns to Montepulciano. —   Her love of God. —   She prophecies public misfortunes. — Her last sickness and death. —   What occurred shortly after her death 245; title: SECTION III.; title: The body of our Saint sweats blood. —   Seditions in Montepulciano. —   Fresh tumults in the city. —   Arrival of the Emperor Charles IV. in Italy. —   This prince visits Saint Agnes Bernardo Guidonis. —   Revelation of the glory she enjoys in heaven. —   Saint Catherine of Sienna goes to visit her shrine. —   The homage to our Saint is confirmed and spread 275; title: THE LIFE OF THE B. BENVENUTA OF BOJAN.; title: I. The birth, infancy, and piety of Benvenuta. Her Sister Maria. Her mortified life. Her vow of virginity. Her particular devotion to St. Dominic. Father Conrad, her confessor 285; title: II. Her fasts and heavenly visions. Benvenuta frequents the church of St Dominic. She shuns detraction. Illusions and assaults of the devil. Her patience, her fortitude, and her victory 289; title: III. The heavenly consolations which were brought to her by the spirits of the blessed. She suffers from numbness and tremor in her limbs, and difficulty in breathing. Her unwearied patience. She makes a vow to God in honour of St. Dominic, and recovers her health 298; title: IV. She accomplishes her vow. Her journey to Venice and Padua, where she meets her confessor, Father Conrad, with Father James her brother, and her return to St. Dominic's sepulchre. Her manner of living with the Dominican nuns in Cividale. She is again attacked by the evil spirits, and sees heavenly visions 304; title: V. The miracle worked by God in that monastery in answer to the prayers of Benvenuta. She is refreshed with miraculous food by the archangel Gabriel, which was related from the pulpit after her death, by Father Conrad, her confessor 310; title: VI. In answer to her prayers God delivers from purgatory the souls of her brother, who was killed, of the brother of Father Conrad, of her father of the Abbot of Alosa, and of other persons. The sister of Benvenuta. Some revelations made to her by Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mother of God 319; title: VII. Further revelations made to her by the angels and the blessed spirits. She sees the Passion of our Lord. Other revelations from heaven 330; title: VIII. Benvenuta receives the gift of prophecy. She foretells the future, and reads the secrets of hearts. She fulfils the duties of an absent sister in the person of that sister 344; title: IX. Her frequent raptures and ecstasies, and the causes of them 350; title: X. She desires to die and her desire is granted : The signs which preceded her death. Heavenly apparitions. Her death. Her funeral and burial in the family sepulchre before the doors of the church of St. Dominic. The sermon of her confessor, Father Conrad. Her brother Paul 358; title: XI. Torches and lights miraculously burning round her tomb. Miraculous cures. Miracles worked by her in the monastery of Cella, and in the great monastery of the Benedictine nuns 367; title: THE LIFE OF B. CATHERINE OF RACONIGI, 377