Saint Lydwine of Schiedam |
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able according already amongst angel appeared asked assure became become begged believe better blessed body brother Brugman called Catherine caused century child Christ church continued cried Cross death desire died divine Duke endured entered evil existence eyes face faithful father fear fell finally fire France friends give hands head Holland Holy hour implored Italy Jesus knew leave less light lived longer look Lord Lydwine Lydwine's Marie miracle mother never night once pain passed Passion persons poor Pope pray prayers present priest Purgatory question received remained replied returned Saint Saviour Schiedam seemed showed sick side sins sister soul spirit suffering tears tell thought took torments tortures town turn victim Virgin Walter whilst wished woman women wounds
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Page 40 - Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...
Page 54 - ... calculi the size of small eggs. Next her lungs and liver decayed; then a chancre dug a deep hole that spread throughout her body and devoured her flesh; and finally, when the plague ravaged Holland, she was its first victim and was afflicted with two buboes, one in the groin, the other near the heart. 'Two, that is well...
Page 75 - I have been martyred, it will be another who will suffer for me, because I shall suffer for Him.
Page 54 - you who have been in the world longer than I, whence can that sap come which in spring swells the vine, so black and bare in winter?
Page 66 - GOD, attribute in a certain measure the merits which he possesses or acquires to those who have none or who will not acquire them. These laws have been put forth by the Almighty, and He has first observed them in applying them to the Person of His Son.
Page 67 - His suffering face in a mirror of blood. They do more, for they alone give this all powerful GOD something He would otherwise lack ; the possibility of suffering again for us. They satisfy this desire which has survived His death, for it is as infinite as the love which engenders it; they dispense to this marvellous Poor the alms of tears ; they restore to Him in His joy that sacrifice which is denied Him.
Page 51 - The furious man, however, neither saw nor heard anything of this scene. Blaspheming aloud, he searched for his enemy who had become invisible to him, but who was standing before him in the middle of the room.
Page 45 - He attacked her health. This young and charming body with which He had clothed her seemed suddenly irksome to Him, and He cut it in all directions, that He might better seize and mould the soul it contained. The fascination of Huysmans' style is in its fecundity of metaphor; though he is an adept of the art of pure plastic representation, he is most distinctively himself in this squeezing out of the juice of words. He pounds them in the mortar of his rich memory with hungry sensationism, and he is...
Page 45 - ... monstrous and without form') is typical of the mediaeval theology, which still sends out blanched and subterranean shoots. She was glad when she became ugly 'and implored God to help her to love Him alone'. Here follows a typical passage: Then He began to cultivate her, to root out all thoughts that could displease Him, to hoe her soul, to rake it till the blood flowed. And He did more; for as if to attest the justice of the saying of St. Hildegarde, at once so terrible and consoling: 'God dwells...
Page 196 - Saviour took the little vessel, which contained the oil of the sick, and made the accustomed unctions without uttering a word ; the angels covered her again ; Jesus placed the candle in her hand and the crucifix before her eyes, and remained there, visible to her alone, until her death. Lydwine said to Him humbly : " My sweet Master, since you have deigned to abase yourself to the most miserable of your servants ; since you have not shrunk from anointing my unhappy body with your most holy hands,...