Category: Biographies
I. BLANDINA THE SLAVE 1 II. S. CÆCILIA 19 III. S. AGNES 39 IV. FEBRONIA OF SIBAPTE 53 V. THE DAUGHTER OF CONSTANTINE 75 VI. THE SISTER OF S. BASIL 93 VII. GENEVIÈVE OF PARIS 111 VIII. THE SISTER OF S. BENEDICT 129 IX. S. BRIDGET 149 X. THE DAUGHTERS OF BRIDGET 179 XI. S. ITHA...
“To know Avila,” says Miss G. C. Graham, in her book _Santa Teresa_, “to wander through its streets, to watch the sun rise and set over the sombre moorlands beyond the city wall...
7. Part 7As he was returning, very tired, with his men, he reached a _dun_ or castle, and resolved to rest there. His men dissuaded him, as the enemy were in pursuit. “Bah!” said Conall,...
4. Part 4But a still more remarkable monument is one quite recently disinterred. It is the house of the martyrs John and Paul, which has existed for centuries buried under the foundation...
15. Part 15Miss Lonsdale represented Sister Dora as somewhat domineering over the managing committee of the hospital. But this is incorrect. A Nonconformist minister says: “The noble objec...
8. Part 8On another occasion, she and one of her nuns were being driven over a common near the Liffey, when they came to a long hedge, for a man had enclosed a portion of the common. But...
2. Part 2In the Acts it was said to adjoin that in which were laid the Bishops of Rome; though, as these bishops were of later date than Cæcilia, if we take her death to have been in 177...
6. Part 6Scholastica was the first to speak out what she felt, and to resolve to devote herself wholly to God. Who could think of marriage then, when there was no prospect of being able...
3. Part 3They built for themselves great houses on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, which they occupied. They observed the law of Moses with great literalness; they had all things in c...
5. Part 5“The sun was nigh setting without her having lost the force of her mind. Then she ceased to speak to us, but folded her hands and fixed her eyes on her heavenly Bridegroom. Her...
11. Part 11Before this, Wulfhere had been constantly engaged in extending the power of Mercia. He detached from Northumbria all the district south of the Mersey, and with it got hold of Ch...
9. Part 9The imagination of Brendan was fired; he set to work to construct three large vessels of wickerwork, and he covered them with skins; each vessel contained thirty men—some were c...
1. Part 1I. BLANDINA THE SLAVE 1 II. S. CÆCILIA 19 III. S. AGNES 39 IV. FEBRONIA OF SIBAPTE 53 V. THE DAUGHTER OF CONSTANTINE 75 VI. THE SISTER OF S. BASIL 93 VII. GENEVIÈVE OF PARIS 111...
12. Part 12He scorned these warnings, and in June 1160 went to the monastery in which he had purposed to lodge. But he had rushed, unwittingly, into the jaws of the lion, for the abbot of...
14. Part 14“They went about preaching among the ignorant people of the neighbourhood, and soon gained such a reputation that I was greatly consoled. They went to preach six or eight miles...
10. Part 10In the first place, the Britons and Irish had been cut off from communication with the rest of Europe by the troubles that afflicted the Empire as it fell into ruin under the bl...
16. Part 16“MY DEAR MISS J.,—I was so glad to hear from you, though I fear it must be a trouble for you to write. I _do_ hope that you will really have benefited by the treatment and rest....