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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 XXIII - Visions of Purgatory, Hell, and Heaven. The Spiritual Exercises
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
Whilst I was in the office of Sub-Prioress, as I was making the Meditation of Hell in the Spiritual Exercise, I was deeply recollected and seemed to see myself transported into that sad region and placed near some of that horrid crew, where I was to be racked and tormented by them. I seemed laid upon a huge plank in the middle of a place of fire under ground. Above me was all dark and black, below me fire, not like what we see here, but violently intense and unquenchable. The devils came round me to torment me in all parts with red-hot irons, giving me to understand at the same time with a kind of envious spite and malice that the faults which I had committed during the two months I was absent from my father's house, as I have elsewhere mentioned, were those for which I had deserved these torments. I hope God has pardoned them. The very thought of them gives me no small confusion. I remained about half an hour in this transport into another world. What I saw in spirit made great impression upon me. It remained a great while fixed in my mind, and I have still new lights upon it. It was given me to understand in prayer that this place was purgatory, and that I was to have remained there for many years if I had died of the smallpox, which I had about two years before my great sickness.
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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. 181 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1876