Category: Biographies
I. Catherine’s External Interests and Activities up to May 1510. Occasional slight Deviations from her old Balance. Immensely close Interconnection of her whole Mental and Psycho-physical Nature. Impressions as connected with the Five Senses 175-181
I. Catherine’s External Interests and Activities up to May 1510. Occasional slight Deviations from her old Balance. Immensely close Interconnection of her whole Mental and Psych...
6. CHAPTER VI. CATHERINE’S DOCTRINE 251-2947. CHAPTER VII.--CATHERINE’S REMAINS AND CULTUS; THE8. CHAPTER VIII.--BATTISTA VERNAZZA’S LIFE 336-3679. CHAPTER IAmongst the apparent enigmas of life, amongst the seemingly most radical and abiding of interior antinomies and conflicts experienced by the human race and by individuals, there...
10. CHAPTER IIWe have found then that all life and all truth are, for all their unity, deeply complex, for us men at all events; indeed that they are both in exact proportion to their reality...
11. CHAPTER IIIWe have so far considered religion as constituted, on its human side, by the interaction of three modalities,--the Historical, the Intellectual, the Experimental. But it is of c...
12. CHAPTER IVLet us now attempt, as far as the often scanty and obscure evidence permits, to give, in the following two chapters, some general account of the changes and growth observable in...
13. CHAPTER VI. CATHERINE’S EXTERNAL INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES UP TO MAY 1510. OCCASIONAL SLIGHT DEVIATIONS FROM HER OLD BALANCE. IMMENSELY CLOSE INTERCONNECTION OF HER WHOLE MENTAL AND PSYCH...
14. CHAPTER VIThe attentive reader will no doubt have perceived how great have been the difficulties at every step taken, in the previous chapters, towards a critically clear and solid accoun...
15. CHAPTER VIII now propose to attempt, in these last two biographical chapters, to give, first, an account of the fate of Catherine’s remains and possessions; and, next, of the vicissitudes...
16. CHAPTER VIIIWe have, in the characters described in the previous Chapter, dwelt upon figures remarkably unlike Catherine, on her psycho-physical side. Yet it would be only too easy for us n...
17. Chapter XXIV runs: “How she comported herself towards her husband, whowas very contrary to her temperament; and concerning her indefatigable patience in bearing with him, and even with the beatings which he gave her”;[368]--where the end marked of...
18. Chapter XLI here, corresponds to the _Dicchiarazione_ (_Trattato_)there; and is followed here by a final Chapter (XLII), made up of a bewilderingly different succession of paragraphs,--paragraphs which, in the Printed _Life_, stand in Chapters...
19. Chapter X makes the Soul for the first time address “_the Lord_,” “OSignore,” on the one hand: and her “_Humanity_” “O Umanità,” on the other.[390] In Chapters XI and XII the Soul stands alone, face to face with the Lord, who appears to it in tw...
20. Chapter XLII is unparalleled by anything in such a position. “Thisholy Soul, whilst yet in the flesh, finding herself placed in the purgatory of God’s burning love, which consumed and purified her from whatever she had to purify, in order that...
21. Chapter Twelve (_Vita_, p. 179_b_, _c_) is now subscribed, “Howsuffering conjoins itself with joy in Purgatory,” and concludes with “Thus the souls in Purgatory experience.…” Yet here too the body of the text nowhere directly refers to, or...
22. Chapter Seventeen (_Vita_, pp. 182_c_-184_c_) now indeed opens with anexplicit reference by Catherine of “this purgative form that I feel it in my mind, especially since the last two years” to the souls in “the true Purgatory”; but this reference...
23. Chapter Thirteen (_Vita_, p. 180_a_, _b_) is now entitled: “How thesouls in Purgatory are no longer in a state to merit; and how they regard the charity exercised in the world for them.” Yet this very _Dicchiarazione’s_ utterly authentic openin...
24. Chapter Fifteen’s last paragraph (_Vita_, p. 181_c_), which warnsthe soul that “the (kind of) Confession and Contrition necessary for such a Plenary Indulgence (as shall instantly purify it from all sin) is a thing most difficult to gain,” is...
25. Chapter XLIV, p. 117_b_, of which long and most important Chapter (pp.116_c_-121_b_) only the first seven lines occur in the MSS. The passage (omitting a highly glossed bracketed clause and a parallel, secondary half-sentence) runs: “After this, (...
26. Chapter XLIII, pp. 115_a_-_c_, have I long hesitated to attributesomething so insignificant in substance, and yet so pompous in form, to Marabotto, either as action or as composition. Yet I have ended, for the reasons given in my Chapter IV,...