The Lives Of S Veronica Giuliani Capuchin Nun
Subtitle: And Of The Blessed Battista Varani, Of The Order Of S. Clare
Publisher: R. Washbourne
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: S. VERONICA GIULIANI.; title: BOOK I.; title: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HER LIFE IN THE WORLD, AND OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS OF HER RELIGIOUS CAREER, TOGETHER WITH A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE OFFICES WHICH SHE FILLED IN THE CONVENT.; title: I. The birth of Veronica. — Tokens of her subsequent sanctity and high privileges apparent even in infancy 3; title: II. She begins at the age of three years to enjoy a familiar intercourse with Jesus and Mary 7; title: III. The first proofs of extraordinary virtue which made her childhood remarkable 12; title: IV. Her father removes with Ursula and her sisters to Piacenza, where at the age of ten she makes her First Communion. — When twelve years old she begins to practise mental prayer 20; title: V. The rich fruit which she gathered from the exercise of meditation. — The first instances of opposition to her religious vocation which she had to encounter at Piacenza 28; title: VI. Ursula is sent back to Mercatello, where she resides in the house of her uncle. — New trials of her vocation. — At length her father yields to her influence and repents, ending his life with certain marks of eternal salvation 35; title: VII. Having received the desired consent of her father, Ursula procures in an extraordinary way her admission among the Capuchin nuns of Citta di Castello 41; title: VIII. Her clothing. — Deceits of the devil during her noviciate 46; title: IX. Her solemn profession. — Her virtue is strengthened, notwithstanding the assaults of the devil, by special graces which she receives from God during the early years of her religious life 66; title: X. The offices which she is called to fill in the convent. — The manner in which she discharged her duties 64; title: BOOK II.; title: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GRACES BY MERITS OF WHICH SHE WAS RAISED DURING THE LAST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF HER LIFE TO THE HIGHEST DEGREES OF SANCTITY, AND RENDERED THE LIVING IMAGE OF JESUS CRUCIFIED.; title: I. Mysterious vision of a chalice, which prepared her to reproduce in her own person the Passion of our Redeemer 85; title: II. Veronica is made to participate in our Blessed Saviour's crowning with thorns. — The severe pains which this caused her, and her sufferings from the remedies to which her superiors required her to submit 92; title: III. She is promoted to heavenly espousals. — The manner in which our Lord prepared and conducted them 99; title: IV. The gifts and favours which Jesus lavished on His spouse durino: the two following days. — Her correspondence to them 110; title: V. In ohedience to a divine command she hegins to fast rigorously on bread and water, and continues to do so for several years. — The opposition which she had to encounter from her superiors, as well as from herself, and from the powers of darkness 115; title: VI. Further instances of Veronica's fidelity to her divine Spouse. — She receives from Him a wound in the heart. — Four documents written by her with her own blood 127; title: VII. Jesus mroduces in her a still greater resemblance to Himself by imprinting upon her His sacred stigmata 139; title: VIII. The stigmata are repeated on various occasions, and attested by new and satisfactory proofs 152 Veronica participates in all the other Dolours which constituted the divine Passion. — Wonderful marks imprinted on her heart 163 The extraordinary graces and favours which accompanied her last illness and holy death 178; title: BOOK III.; title: ON HER HEROIC VIRTUES AND OF THE GIFTS WHICH SHE POSSESSED IN COMMON WITH OTHER SAINTS.; title: I. Jesus Christ Himself becomes her visible Instructor in Christian and perfect life. — Her constant desire of greater perfection 195; title: II. Veronica's heroic perfection in the theological virtues 202; title: III. Her remarkable zeal and charity towards her neighbour 211; title: IV. Her spirit of poverty and mortification, and her angelic purity 225; title: V. Her patience and imperturbable gentleness 236; title: VI. Her wonderful humility 250; title: VII. Her miraculous obedience 259; title: VIII. Her tender devotion to the Blessed Virgin, to her guardian angel, and the other saints 267; title: IX. Her gifts of prophecy and miracles during life 275; title: Note 285; title: BLESSED BATTISTA VARANI.; title: HISTORICAL NOTICE 289; title: PROLOGUE 295; title: I. Her vow made in childhood relative to the Passion of Jesus Christ. — Her progress in this devotion, and the pious exercises which it suggested to her 298; title: II. She resists the grace of a religious vocation for a long time, but euds by following it with generosity 304; title: III. Spiritual favours which followed her entire conversion 312; title: IV. What she had to suffer daring her noviciate. — Her return to Camermo where she received great favours from Heaven, and, among others, a visit from S. Clare 326; title: V. Other divine favours accorded to Battista ; they are followed by new tribulations 337; title: VI. Battista addresses to her spiritual father particulars supplementary to the history of her life 349; title: VII. First pain. — Sorrow for the sufferings of the lost and the elect 364; title: Second pain. — The sorrows of Christ for the sufferings of His Mother, S. Mary Magdalen, and His disciples 370; title: Third pain. — The sorrows of Christ for the ingratitude of the Jewish people, and of all creatures ; His especial sorrow in the Garden 375; title: SUPPLEMENT.; title: I. Her humility 383; title: II. Her charity towards her neighbour, manifested in the warnings she gives her disciple 394; title: III. Her virtue is tried by the good and evil fortune of her family. — She establishes a monastery at Fermo, and returns to Camerino, where she is raised to the dignity of abbess 404; title: IV. Friendship of Battista with John of Fano. — Beginning of the congregation of Capuchins. — Death of Battista and veneration of her body 406