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Maidens of Hallowed Names More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com MAIDENS TWELFTH THOUSAND. COLLEGE OF THE SACRED HEART, (JESUITHOUSE OF STUDIES,) WOODSTOCK, MD. 1882. ' Private Use Only COPY RIGHTED BY CHARLES PICCIRILLO, 1881. More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com Published ~12%the appro6afzht of the MOSTBVEXEND J~ESGIBBONS, D. D., &CKB~OP OF BALTIMORE. Private Use Only TO YOU, MAIDENS OF PURE LIVES, THE JOY OF CHRISTIAN HOMES, THE HOPE OF SOUND SOCIETY, TAE TENDER CARE OF MOTHER CHURCH, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS OFFERED. HERE YOU WILL FIND A SAINTLY MODEL: TRY TO BECOME HER IMAGE. More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com TABLE OF CONTENTS. Prehce, . ix INTRODUCTION: . xi To the young Reader, . xi Rules of Life, ..... xvi Virginity, . xviii t Saint Agnes, .... I Saint Gertrude, . , . .12 Saint Rose of Lima, . 28 Saint Katharine of Siena, . .. 54 Saint Genevieve, . IOI Saint Martina, . 130 Saint Clara, . I 55 Saint Bibiana, . ... 183 P Blessed Marguerite Marie, . 206 Saint Barbara, . ..... 249 Saint Zita, . 269 Saint Cecilia, . 290 Saint Teresa, . .a307 Private Use Only viii CONTEKTS . Conclusion. ... .....358 APPENDIX: ........363 A Visit to the Blessed Sacrament. .. 363 Prayer to Jesus in the Sacrament of thc Altar. 365 Prayer to the Blessed Virgin. .... 365 P-er to Saint Joseph. .....366 Prayer to the Angel Guardian. ...366 More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com PREFACE. THISlittle volume is written almost exclnsively for young ladies. It embraces the lives of saintly maidens, who either in the home-life of girlhood, or engaged in different avocations, and surrounded by different circumstances, withstood the trials and overcame the temptations of the world, and preserved the end their virginity and their purity of heart. They are lives, it is true, from which lessons may be learned by all, from the simple child to the serious matron, from the worldly-minded votary of society to the prayerful nun in the seclusion of the cloister ; but they are here presented chiefly to young women who, more than others, wish for good counsel and good example, in order that they may learn how dear to Heaven is their spotless purity, and what means they should employ in order to keep that purity always unsullied in the midst of surrounding dangers. Not all have the grace of vocation to the religious state, nor should all direct their life to that end. "The spirit breathes where it will," and without the divine whisper their efforts would be useless, and their hopes only built up to be Private Use Only X PREFACE. ! broken. But a11 can and should aim at perfection in the life which God wishes them t~ lead. It is along that life that a11 the blessings which God has in store for them will be scattered, and only that life will God ever be willing to crown. 1 Now. wherever it may be, whether in weaIth or poverty, honor or obscurity, comfort or distress, there is, among the many beautiful virgins whom the Church venerates for their sandty, sme model for that life, some perfect pattern of its perfection. To gather and pment some of these mod- els, so that every young reader may select according to her taste, and shape her conduct according to the pattern, is an object which was not thonght unworthy. If am young Catholic women of America-our Children 3 of Mary, our Sodalists of the Blessed Virgin, and the many who give some serious thought to their spiritual welfare, accept this little book in the spirit in which it is written, and choose from it some saint whom they will Iove more dearly and inlitate more closely, the object of the little volume will have been accomplished and its inissioo fulfilled. May it be ta them in some way what the angel was to Our RIesseG Lady im the Annunciation - a means employed 1 by Almighty God to reveat to them the secrets af His love and the designs which He has upon their sds More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com In presenting this little book to you I wish to tell you how dear it should be to you. For your sake it was written and published; and if you oniy learn to love it, the indiffer- ence of all others will be held of little account. It comes to you full of kindness and full of cheerfulness, for it comes to remind you of your excellence and your power, and to teach you how to exert dver others an influence much greater than any which even the cleverest woman or the strongest,man can wield. Perhaps you do not know that from the very beginning of Christianity the church has watched over the tender years of her children with a special care and affection.-And in doing so, she has only done the will of her Divine Master and imitated His example. Our Blessed Lord himself loved the young with the most sincere and ardent love. While on earth it was His great pleasure to be in their society, to talk to them and teach them the lessons of virtue and the paths of a perfect life. He loved them for themselves - for their innocent hearts, and pure souls and winning ways. He said that it was His Private Use Only xii INTRODUCTION. 1 delight to be with them, and He forbade others to hint lo^ them from coming to Him, because they reminded Him o' those whom He knew and loved in Heaven. Again, He gave them as a model for all mankind, and told great strong men that they could neve! enter into the f kingdom of Heaven unless they became like unto His little children. And do you think that this lwe and regard was only for the youth of His time? Oh, no ! His infinite charily ex- tended even to you, and his love went forth through hun- dreds of years as fresh and warm as it seemed to those who were gathered at his feet. He loved you far back in the eternal dawn. He has watched over you with fondest affection in your infancy and childhood, and through all i your school-days. It was His love that made itself known I in that of your parents, relatives, friends, teachers,. and I most of all, in the assihuous care with which your guardian angel has guided you along every step of your life-path. And even now He sends this little book to you in order that you may the more closely watch over your soul, and not betray its virtues into the hands of vice. No one ever knew so well as Our Lord the beauty of you1 , soul. He saw it in its origin, in its nature, in all its ten- I dencies and possible developements. He saw it cleansed 1 from sin and robed in His divine grace, and adorned with beautiful virtue, and prepared for an eternity of bliss in the company of saints and angels. It was to Elim infinitely more than the beauties of earth and sea and sky ; and all these things were made only that you might the better know your own beauty and value, and be the better 1 More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com I TO THE YOUNG READER. xiii 1 pleased with Him and with His work, and give Him your heart in deeper love. It is this that He asks of you -your heart ! "Child, give me thy heart! " He asks it for your sake and for His own. He knows that if he can win your heart's love in this life, He can secure your soul's happiness in the life to come. And He asks it for His own sake.-He wants it with its purity and its virtues. It is in these, my child, that all your beauty consists. The world's vanity can only degrade you in His eyes, as indeed it should degrade you in your own.. The gleam of precious gems is beautiful, it is true, when compared with common clay or the black loam ; the bloom of the flower and the fragrance which it gives are sweet by contrast with other thing which spring from the earth; and the p!umage of birds gives variety and makes the beauty of the world more beautiful still; but all these things can add nothing to your beauty, .and a vain use of them would be only a degradation of yourself in stooping to borrow your charms from banks of earth and brutes of the field. They would become more beautiful if they could borrow from you, but you cannot become so by borrowing from them. If you could lend them your immortality with its llfe and love-oh I then their beauty would not fade or perish ! The gleam would be like an .ingel's crown -never fading; their bloom like the blush of health where sickness and sorrow cannot come; and their many colors like the loveliness of the rainbow that spans not the sea after the storm, bu~the throne of Gcd in the sweet stillness of eternity. Private Use Only xiv INTRODUCTION. But you cannot give them this. my child ! Your immor- tality is your own. You cannot part with it, and God gave it to you because He loves you more than He loves them And they can lend you nothing but dust and ashes I Im- mortality, you know, walks over crushed and crumbled gems that once decked the bosom, blooms in fullest life over flowers long fallen from the hair and withered, and robes itself in colors that never fade or pass away.
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