Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Birth and Family of Catharine Burton
- CHAPTER II The English Teresians at Antwerp
- CHAPTER III Introduction to her Autobiography
- CHAPTER IV Early Years
- CHAPTER V First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VI First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VII Continued Suffering
- CHAPTER VIII Consolations and patience
- CHAPTER IX Favours and Trials
- CHAPTER X First Devotion to St. Francis Xavier
- CHAPTER XI The ten Fridays repeated
- CHAPTER XII Miraculous Cure
- CHAPTER XIII A second miracle
- CHAPTER XIV Passing the Sea
- CHAPTER XV In the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVI Advance in Prayer
- CHAPTER XVII Second year in the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVIII Among the Professed
- CHAPTER XIX Employments and Crosses
- CHAPTER XX Sub-Prioress and Mistress of Novices
- CHAPTER XXI Union with God
- CHAPTER XXII Anecdotes of Religious Life
- CHAPTER XXIII Visions of Purgatory, Hell, and Heaven. The Spiritual Exercises
- CHAPTER XXIV Mary Xaveria when Prioress
- CHAPTER XXV Spiritual History
- CHAPTER XXVI Recollections of the Religious
- CHAPTER XXVII Confidence in God
- CHAPTER XXVIII Religious Virtues
- CHAPTER XXIX Last Sickness and Death
- CHAPTER XXX After Death
- APPENDIX
CHAPTER III - Introduction to her Autobiography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Birth and Family of Catharine Burton
- CHAPTER II The English Teresians at Antwerp
- CHAPTER III Introduction to her Autobiography
- CHAPTER IV Early Years
- CHAPTER V First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VI First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VII Continued Suffering
- CHAPTER VIII Consolations and patience
- CHAPTER IX Favours and Trials
- CHAPTER X First Devotion to St. Francis Xavier
- CHAPTER XI The ten Fridays repeated
- CHAPTER XII Miraculous Cure
- CHAPTER XIII A second miracle
- CHAPTER XIV Passing the Sea
- CHAPTER XV In the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVI Advance in Prayer
- CHAPTER XVII Second year in the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVIII Among the Professed
- CHAPTER XIX Employments and Crosses
- CHAPTER XX Sub-Prioress and Mistress of Novices
- CHAPTER XXI Union with God
- CHAPTER XXII Anecdotes of Religious Life
- CHAPTER XXIII Visions of Purgatory, Hell, and Heaven. The Spiritual Exercises
- CHAPTER XXIV Mary Xaveria when Prioress
- CHAPTER XXV Spiritual History
- CHAPTER XXVI Recollections of the Religious
- CHAPTER XXVII Confidence in God
- CHAPTER XXVIII Religious Virtues
- CHAPTER XXIX Last Sickness and Death
- CHAPTER XXX After Death
- APPENDIX
Summary
When I was first Sub-Prioress, I made the ten Fridays in honour of St. Xaverius for one of the Sisters who was dangerously ill and despaired of by the doctors. One of my intentions in this devotion was the recovery of her health, if it were for the good of her soul; and another intention was that St. Xaverius would obtain me light to know what I should do to make some return of gratitude to Almighty God for all the favours He had done me.
At the end of the ten Fridays, the sick person recovered, to the admiration of all, and St. Xaverius appeared to me as I was in our cell at work, and bade me write my life and the favours God had done me, giving me to understand that by doing this I should much advance the honour and glory of God, and that this would be the best return of gratitude which I could make. I cannot express the peace and joy I found in my soul. I remained an hour in a rapt; yet I found great repugnance in doing what the Saint required of me, having no talent in writing, nor time for it (I was then in the office of Sub-Prioress and had care of the novices), so that considering the little time I had, I concluded I must be years about it, and even then unable to bring it to anything without supernatural help.
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- An English CarmeliteThe Life of Catharine Burton, Mother Mary Xaveria of the Angels, of the English Teresian Convent at Antwerp, pp. 14 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1876