The life of Blessed Alphonsus Rodriguez
Subtitle: lay-brother of the Society of Jesus
Publisher: Burns and Oates
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: BOOK I.; title: Parentage and early years of Blessed Alphonsus 2; title: His wonderful devotion to the ever Blessed Virgin as a child, and her apparition to him when four years of age 2; title: He studies for two years 3; title: On his father's death he leaves his studies to assist his mother in business 4; title: He marries 4; title: He loses his business by reverses and his wife and a daughter by death 4; title: He retires from business, and spends three years in acts of piety and great austerities 4; title: Devotion to the Rosary, and wonderful favours accorded to him in its recital 5; title: Glorious apparition of our Blessed Lord with St Francis of Assisi and many Saints, and its effect upon him 6; title: Devotion to the Passion of our Divine Redeemer, and our saint's sensible participation in His pains 6; title: Death of his son and last child, and his wonderful heroism on the occasion 7; title: He determines to leave the world and embrace Religion 8; title: A wonderful vision which led him to the Society of Jesus 8; title: He applies at the age of thirty-eight to the Fathers of the Society at Segovia for admission, but is refused on account of his age and want of learning 9; title: He retires to Valencia, attends the Jesuit College there for two years, to study Latin and try his vocation 9; title: His saintly conduct there ; vocation to the Society as Lay-brother ; wonderful attempt by the devil to divert him from it, and his deliverance from the temptation 10; title: He applies to Father Anthony Cordeses, Provincial of Arragon, for admission, and is admitted as Lay-brother at the age of forty 13; title: He passes six months' probation in the Novitiate at Valencia, and his admirable conduct there 15; title: He is sent for his noviceship to the College of Majorca ; his conduct there 16; title: He takes his first vows 17; title: He is attacked with temptations of melancholy 17; title: His miraculous deliverance from them 18; title: He takes his last vows 18; title: His admirable conduct 19; title: He is delivered from all scruples 20; title: Abridgment of his rule of life 20; title: He performs the office of porter 21; title: His conduct as such, and his general conduct 22; title: His conduct abroad 23; title: His method of examen of conscience 24; title: His modesty in taking his meals and rules thereon, and conduct in the refectory 25; title: Father Julian's opinion of Blessed Alphonsus 26; title: His humility; self-abjection and humiliations ; his Superiors order him to note down in writing his communications with God ; his written ideas with regard to humility 27; title: His extraordinary and terrible combats with the devils ; their attempts for seven years against his chastity; our Lord showers His consolations upon him, and, with His Blessed Mother, appears to him 37; title: His strict custody and mortification of senses at home and abroad 40; title: Visitations from our Lord and His Blessed Mother, with revelations of favours accorded him during the time of meals 46; title: His conduct during hours of recreation 47; title: His mortification, austerities, and love of suffering 47; title: Suffers for ten years severe and extraordinary attacks from the devils during the hour of meditation ; the demons twice attempt to kill him ; his severe bodily suffering 53; title: Our Lord and His Blessed Mother appear to him and console him 57; title: His patience, with various occasions of its exercise 57; title: His love of holy poverty, and occasions of exercising it 61; title: Constant exercise of the presence of God, and his familiar and childlike intercourse with our Lord and His Blessed Mother 64; title: His devotion to sacred images and pictures 66; title: In consequence of his bad health he is forbidden to exercise mental prayer; his obedient compliance, and severe struggles in consequence, and divine favours, with miraculous cure accorded him 66; title: His lively sense of his sins, alarms for his salvation, and other anxieties, with assurance of pardon and divine favours shown him, and wonderful visitation of our Lord and His Blessed Mother 67; title: His prayer ; admirable instructions on prayer of union 70; title: Remarkable favours shown him in prayer ; he is transported into Heaven, raised from the ground, &c. 71; title: Miraculous instances of the power of his prayer 75; title: His ardent devotion to the ever Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist; visions and favours accorded him before the Blessed Sacrament, and at the time of Mass and Holy Communion 79; title: His love for, and tender devotion towards, the ever Blessed Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God; his zeal and devotion towards the Immaculate Conception 86; title: Terrible storm allayed by his prayer to the Blessed Virgin 90; title: Devotion to the mystery of the Assumption, and great favours accorded him in consequence ; he is translated into Heaven on several festivals of the Assumption ; numerous apparitions of our Blessed Lady to him 91; title: His intimate communion with the Blessed in Heaven 97; title: His blind obedience, with remarkable instances 97; title: BOOK II.; title: His profound infused knowledge in spiritual things ; assists at spiritual conferences, and other instances of this knowledge 110; title: He is charged with the training of the Lay-brothers ; is consulted by many on their Religious vocation, and causes many to enter various Orders ; some interesting cases given 112; title: He furnishes the Society of Jesus with five illustrious subjects 116; title: A brief account of the intercourse between our saint and his special child of predilection, the Blessed Peter Claver, Apostle of the Negroes ; the instructions for spiritual life given by our saint to his beloved pupil, and wonderful vision in which Blessed Alphonsus is shown the future glory of the Blessed Peter 117; title: He causes many seculars also to leave the world ; a striking instance given 130; title: He uses every opportunity to excite externs to piety 130; title: He does the same for the scholars and the poor 131; title: His zeal and prayers for the success of Preachers, with a remarkable instance of it 132; title: His ardent love for all sinners throughout the world, and a vision with which he was favoured 135; title: He is consulted by persons of the highest rank in Church and State 136; title: Conversation with a holy and learned Religious on the will of God, &c. 37; title: His charity towards the sick and distressed poor 138; title: Miraculous favours bestowed upon him 139; title: Gift of healing, with wonderful instances 140; title: Gift of prophecy, with instances 146; title: His visions, in which is shown to him the glory of several of his fellow-Religious and others in Heaven 159; title: His further combats with the devils, and extraordinary and terrible torments inflicted on him by them, with other annoyances and temptations, for three years 163; title: BOOK III.; title: He is discharged from the office of porter when upwards of seventy years of age 168; title: He composes a small spiritual treatise 169; title: Great infirmities and sufferings with patient joy under them 170; title: He is again tried for several months with grievous temptations of despondency and with spiritual dryness and desolation, and his conduct under them 171; title: Our Blessed Lady and the Infant Jesus appear to and console him 172; title: His approaching death ; he is forewarned eight days beforehand to prepare for Extreme Unction ; his conduct on that occasion; his edifying conduct in his sickness; he falls into a wonderful ecstasy three days before The body is exposed in the church ; Office of the Dead The Viceroy, and all the men of rank, secular and ecclesiastic, with immense multitudes of people, flock to venerate the precious body and obtain relics 180; title: Wonderful miracles wrought before the interment 181; title: In consequence of the prodigies wrought at our dear saint's tomb, the Bishop allows the people to venerate him 192; title: Letter of the Viceroy of Majorca to His Holiness Pope Paul V. 193; title: Judicial inquiries for the Beatification ordered by His Holiness 194; title: Some interesting circumstances of the life of the saint, collected from the process of the Beatification 195; title: Account of some miracles proved 203; title: Beatification and ceremony 204; title: Beatification is celebrated in many places, and miracles wrought 206; title: Brief of Beatification 210; title: Litany in honour of Blessed Alphonsus, with prayer, and prayer to the ever Blessed Virgin, composed and used by the saint 217; title: his happy death; title: His blessed death; title: Description of his person; title: Beautiful appearance after death and funeral 179