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Francis converted no less than seventy-two thousandof them. Yes; if I knew that there wasone thread in my heart which was not marked with the crucifix, I wouldnot keep it one moment. This saint recommendedthe use of disciplines whereby to subdue and punish the flesh, which wasadopted as a compensation for long penitential fasts. This victory, he says, would be easy if every one who had contractedsuch a habit would enjoin himself some penance for every oath whichshould escape him, as the loss of a meal.

Also, Henschenius, p. Her life in her retirement,to that happy moment which closed her mortal pilgrimage, was a continueduniform contemplation, by which all her powers were united to, andtransformed into God. the powers of her soulwith the sweetness of his heavenly communications, she learned thatsublime scie Footnotes:1.