July 26, 2025 • 17 mins
Dive into the extraordinary life of Saint Gerard Majella, an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists, whose unwavering devotion to mirror the sacrifices and humiliations of Jesus Christ was awe-inspiring. Despite his frail health, he surpassed the work of his peers, earning the title Father of the Poor for his boundless charity. Revered for his angelic purity, he bore false accusations with admirable patience, leading St. Alphonsus to declare, Brother Gerard is a saint. His divine gifts extended to profound spiritual insight, prophecy, discernment of spirits, bilocation, and seemingly limitless power over nature, sickness, and demons. Today, people seek his intercession for a myriad of causes, including children, expectant mothers, the falsely accused, and more. Join us as we explore the legacy of this saint, drawing from sources like the 1919 Catholic Encyclopedia and Wikipedia.
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Chapter sixteen of Life of Saint Gerard Magella. This is
a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
Recording by Aubrey Kincer. Life of Saint Gerard Magella by
(00:22):
Reverend O. R. Vassal Phillips, Chapter sixteen, New Marvels. Saint
Gerard was only thirty years of age, yet he was
already completely worn out. His whole life had been devoted
to prayer, oftentimes continued for long hours, far into the night,
(00:44):
to the severest bodily austerities, and to hard physical labor.
Still exhausted though he felt, he never relaxed his efforts.
Never for one instant did he dream of repose. His
great ambition was to work on, uncomplainingly, even to the end,
(01:04):
until the night should come when he could work no
longer did charity or duty call on him to sacrifice himself.
He was always found eager to answer to the call,
as though to reward the generosity of his servant. Almighty
God now loaded him with gifts and graces in an
ever increasing abundance. It was especially toward the close of
(01:27):
his life that Gerard manifested his power of by location,
that is to say, of being seen in two places
at the same time. At Lacedonia there lived a family
called di Gregorio, with whom the saint was on terms
of special intimacy. He had one day worked a striking
(01:48):
miracle on their behalf, restoring to its unimpaired condition a
large cask of wine which had turned acid. Now it
so happened that a servant in this house became dangerously ill.
One evening, in the midst of her pain, she remembered
this miracle, thought of Saint Gerard, and ardently desired to
(02:10):
see him. Oh, my dear brother Gerard, she cried out,
where are you? Why do you not come and deliver
me for my sufferings. The words were hardly out of
her mouth before she heard a knock at the door.
It was Gerard himself. He went straight up to her
and said, you called me. I am here to be
(02:31):
of service to you. Have you a lively faith in God?
If so be cured? He then made the sign of
the Cross upon the girl's forehead and left her without
another word. Her pains had vanished. She got up quite well,
needless to say, her first anxiety was to thank her
(02:52):
wonderful benefactor that he was nowhere to be found. On inquiry,
it transpired that he had been seen by no one
in the place outside of the di Gregorio household. Except
for that supernatural visit to the sick room. He had
not been at Lacedonia all the day. On another occasion,
(03:12):
Saint Gerard had a long conversation with a great friend
of his, a very charitable man called Theodore Cleffy. Before
leaving the Saint Theodore promised to prepare a list of
the most necessitous persons in Capiselee and bring it to
the convent. On his way home, he went into a
(03:32):
cottage where he knew that there was a man who
was very ill and in a state of extreme destitution.
On being asked by his visitor of what he stood
in the greatest need, the poor sufferer replied, cheerfully, I
need nothing, For Brother Gerard has been with me a
short time ago. He has relieved all my wants. Theodore's
(03:55):
surprise may be imagined for the moment he was dumbfounded.
Then he said bluntly that that was certainly untrue, as
he had himself been with Brother Gerard in the convent
at the very time that he was supposed to be
paying this visit of charity. But when the sick man
persisted in his assertion and in confirmation thereof produced the
(04:16):
presence that the Holy Brother had just made him, there
was no longer any room for reasonable doubt, at least
in the mind of one who knew the gifts and
sanctity of the servant of God. It was clearly a
case of by location, Father Tenoia, than whom no one
had better opportunities of knowing the truth, and whose evidence
(04:37):
is beyond suspicion tells us that Saint Gerard made frequent
use of this most marvelous endowment. Thus, once, on not
receiving some news that he expected for morrow, he said quietly,
I must go there tomorrow. It was afterwards stated on
unexceptionable authority that he was seen in Morrow the next
(04:59):
day day, although on the other hand, it is equally
certain that he did not leave the convent at Capiselle.
The mysterious presence of the Saint in more than one
place at the same moment of time was sometimes both
effected and apprehended, not visibly, but in a spiritual manner.
(05:20):
He was, as we know, throughout his life, often supernaturally
apprised of events occurrying at a distance, and towards the end,
as he became more and more emancipated from the shackles
of the flesh, the sphere of his soul's activity was
so enlarged by Almighty God that he was able to
make his advent felt among his friends, who were, as
(05:44):
regards the body, far away from him at the time.
We may easily believe that the impression made upon the
minds of those whom he thus visited was more vivid
and more lasting than would have been the case had
his presence been recognized merely according to the manner with
which custom has rendered us all familiar. Thus, doctor Saintarelli,
(06:07):
the medical attendant of the community and a great friend
of Saint Gerard, made the following statement. As I was
one day making my usual round of visits to my patients,
wherever I went, I felt Brother Gerard by my side
as really as if I had seen him with my eyes.
My duties finished, I went to the convent, and on
(06:30):
meeting him, I asked him, what were you about accompanying
me in that fashion? All the morning, do you not know?
He answered that I have to go away tomorrow, so
I wished to visit all my poor people with you
before leaving. Saintarelli's own family once experienced a somewhat similar marvel.
(06:51):
Saint Gerard was at their house, and on leaving he
said that he would come back in the evening. The
doctor smiled, as he knew that it was against the
rules of the house for him to go out without
necessity after the evening. Angelus, I am not joking, said
the brother. I will come back, not in the body,
but in the spirit. As a matter of fact, that
(07:16):
night Doctor Santarelli's sister Monica saw Gerard fixing his searching
gaze upon her. She said that she was ready to
declare upon oath if necessary, that it was no mere imagination,
but that she had really seen the Holy brother. The
lies of the saints show us that some of God's
(07:36):
chosen servants had received from him the gift of rendering
themselves invisible to the eyes of men. This extraordinary favor
was not refused to Saint Gerard. He was once making
his monthly retreat when the Father Rector, chancing to require
his services, sent for him to his room. Gerard was
(07:59):
not there. They looked in the oratory. He was not
there either. The whole house was searched from top to bottom.
All was in vain. He was nowhere to be found. Meanwhile,
doctor Saintarelli called the rector, hastened to tell him the news.
Brother Gerard was lost. Saintarelli laughingly suggested, perhaps he is
(08:23):
hidden under the bed to be quiet on his retreat day.
Let us go and look. Taking a brother with him.
The doctor went himself to Gerard's room, but all to
no purpose. It does not matter, said Saintarelli. On his return.
He knew Saint Gerard well, and added, when the time
for communion comes, you will see that he will leave
(08:45):
his hiding place. So it happened Gerard duly appeared in
the church to receive holy communion after his thanksgiving. The
father rector asked him where he had been all the morning?
My room was the answer. In your room, rejoined the rector.
We went there twice to look for you. Gerard said nothing,
(09:09):
but only smiled. However, on being told to explain this
seeming contradiction, he said, with all simplicity, as I feared
to be disturbed in my retreat, I begged of our
Lord the grace to become invisible. This once I forgive you,
said his rector, but see that you do not make
(09:30):
such prayers in the future. Saint Gerard's room had no
furniture excepting a small table and a bed. There is
nothing that could have, naturally speaking, prevented him from being seen.
We can only exclaim that God is wonderful in his saints,
and that he will refuse nothing to their prayers. It
(09:53):
sometimes happened that Gerard exercised his supernatural gifts in circumstances
that will appear almost trivial if we fail to remember
that when there is question of doing a kind act,
nothing is trivial in the sight of God. Thus, one day,
meeting a lady named Candida Fungarelli, he asked her to
(10:14):
give him a little white silk out of which to
make a veil for asaborium. She said that, of course
she would be delighted, and on her return home, did
her best to find what was wanted. However, not succeeding,
she made up her mind to cut it out of
her wedding dress. Next day, Gerard saw her again and
(10:35):
told her at once, before she alluded to the subject
at all that she was not to spoil her wedding
dress for the sake of two little pieces of silk.
He said that if she made a fresh search, he
was sure that she would find what would serve his purpose.
The lady was thunderstruck at seeing him thus disclose a
secret intention which she had not made known to any
(10:58):
human being. On her return home, acting on Gerrard's advice,
she looked again, found the silk, as he had told
her would be the case, and brought it to him.
At the convent. One day after holy communion, the saint
withdrew to make his thanksgiving before a large crucifix. He
(11:19):
was at this time discharging the office of cook in
the community, but wrapt in contemplation on the passion of
our Lord. He allowed the hours to glide by until
the bell rang for dinner, without his having left the
oratory where he was praying. They looked for him all
over the house. When at last he was found, the
(11:39):
brother said to him, Gerard, what have you been about?
The bell has rung for dinner and the kitchen is locked.
Nn of little faith, replied Gerard, what had the angels
to do all the while to the amazement of the
whole house. The dinner that day was like one given
on great feast days. Our Lord had called his servant
(12:02):
to spend the morning in loving colloquy with himself. It
was impossible that others should suffer from his obedience to
the voice of God. His conduct, due to an extraordinary inspiration,
was thus even by miracle, stamped with the divine approval.
Greater and greater waxed the Saint's power over the hearts
(12:25):
of men as the end drew near. One notable conversion
in particular belongs to this period of his life. The
Archbishop of Conza had come to spend a few days
with their redemptiest fathers, and had brought with him his
confidential secretary, a Roman by birth, a man full of
(12:45):
wit and merriment. But this exterior light heartedness was only
the cloak of interior misery. His conscience was in a
deplorable state. Gerard had hardly seen him, when by a
divine light he knew all at once. He determined to
win this soul for God. Accordingly, he deliberately put himself
(13:09):
in the way of the secretary whenever he met him.
He used to chat with him, laughing at his jokes
and encouraging his witticisms. One day, in Italian fashion, he
embraced the poor man with affectionate warmth. This was the
turning point. The little mark of friendship had won his heart.
(13:29):
There was no longer any necessity to seek him out.
He haunted Gerard like his shadow. At last, the saint
saw that the hour had come for action. Having brought
his captive of love into the community oratory, he knelt
down before him, and then, with tears in his eyes,
made an appeal to his better feelings and higher nature.
(13:53):
My dear friend, he said, I cannot understand how you
are able to live in enmity with God and yet
always be so cheerful. You cannot deny that you are
a married man, and that your wife is living in Rome.
How then, is it that you venture to pretend to
be unmarried? How can you bring yourself thus to play
(14:16):
a poor woman false? The Saint continued in this stream
until at last, utterly overcome, the unhappy wretch knelt down,
in his turn, acknowledged everything, and entreated Saint Gerard to
pray for him and tell him what he should do.
To recover the friendship of God. Great was the charity
(14:38):
with which Gerard now dwelt on the infinite mercies of
Our Lord and his welcome for the repentant sinner. He
advised the secretary to make his confession at once to
Father Fiochi, who happened to be at the house. His
confession over, he went to the church to prepare for
holy communion. When a new prodigy occurred. Gerard went up
(15:03):
to him and asked him where he was going to
Holy communion? Was the reply given with some eagerness, wait
said Gerard, you forgot such and such a sin. Go
to confession again, and then you will have nothing on
your conscience when Our Lord comes to visit you. Utterly amazed,
(15:24):
the secretary went back to confess the sin which he
had completely forgotten, until thus miraculously reminded, and then his
soul refreshed by a second absolution. Full of joy, he
received the Bread of life. This conversion was both sincere
and lasting. No one could help observing the change that
(15:47):
had come over the demeanor of the once jovial secretary
until the archbishop himself asked him the cause. In the
fervor of his repentance. Gerard's convert did not hesitate to
acknowledge all, and ended with the words of the Samaritan
woman in the Gospel, Come and see the man who
(16:07):
has told me everything that I have done. Full of surprise,
the archbishop sought Gerard out and had several long conversations
with him. On his departure, he earnestly recommended himself to
the Holy Brother's prayers. Oh, my Lord, replied the servant
of God, I have need of all the divine mercy
(16:29):
to save my own soul. I beg of your grace
not to forget me at the altar. The archbishop never
lost the impression made upon him during that stay at Capiselee.
On their return to the archepiscopal residence, the change in
the secretary was the common talk of the place. All
(16:50):
his former gaiety seemed to have suddenly disappeared. One day,
the superior of the seminary asked him whatever could have
happened to him during his day absence. Then he too
was told the wonderful story. The poor secretary made no
secret of the fact that he could never again be
light hearted as of old until he had made reparation
(17:12):
to his injured wife. As soon as the necessary arrangements
could be made, he left for Rome to rejoin the
woman whom he had treated so badly, and who thus
recovered both her happiness and her husband through the instrumentality
of Saint Gerard. Even in Rome, the story was spread
(17:34):
far and wide, and at last a cardinal wrote to
ask that the wonderful brother should be sent to the
eternal City. But when this letter reached Capiselee Alas Gerard
was already dead. End of chapter sixteen,
Chapter sixteen of Life of Saint Gerard Magella. This is
a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
Recording by Aubrey Kincer. Life of Saint Gerard Magella by
(00:22):
Reverend O. R. Vassal Phillips, Chapter sixteen, New Marvels. Saint
Gerard was only thirty years of age, yet he was
already completely worn out. His whole life had been devoted
to prayer, oftentimes continued for long hours, far into the night,
(00:44):
to the severest bodily austerities, and to hard physical labor.
Still exhausted though he felt, he never relaxed his efforts.
Never for one instant did he dream of repose. His
great ambition was to work on, uncomplainingly, even to the end,
(01:04):
until the night should come when he could work no
longer did charity or duty call on him to sacrifice himself.
He was always found eager to answer to the call,
as though to reward the generosity of his servant. Almighty
God now loaded him with gifts and graces in an
ever increasing abundance. It was especially toward the close of
(01:27):
his life that Gerard manifested his power of by location,
that is to say, of being seen in two places
at the same time. At Lacedonia there lived a family
called di Gregorio, with whom the saint was on terms
of special intimacy. He had one day worked a striking
(01:48):
miracle on their behalf, restoring to its unimpaired condition a
large cask of wine which had turned acid. Now it
so happened that a servant in this house became dangerously ill.
One evening, in the midst of her pain, she remembered
this miracle, thought of Saint Gerard, and ardently desired to
(02:10):
see him. Oh, my dear brother Gerard, she cried out,
where are you? Why do you not come and deliver
me for my sufferings. The words were hardly out of
her mouth before she heard a knock at the door.
It was Gerard himself. He went straight up to her
and said, you called me. I am here to be
(02:31):
of service to you. Have you a lively faith in God?
If so be cured? He then made the sign of
the Cross upon the girl's forehead and left her without
another word. Her pains had vanished. She got up quite well,
needless to say, her first anxiety was to thank her
(02:52):
wonderful benefactor that he was nowhere to be found. On inquiry,
it transpired that he had been seen by no one
in the place outside of the di Gregorio household. Except
for that supernatural visit to the sick room. He had
not been at Lacedonia all the day. On another occasion,
(03:12):
Saint Gerard had a long conversation with a great friend
of his, a very charitable man called Theodore Cleffy. Before
leaving the Saint Theodore promised to prepare a list of
the most necessitous persons in Capiselee and bring it to
the convent. On his way home, he went into a
(03:32):
cottage where he knew that there was a man who
was very ill and in a state of extreme destitution.
On being asked by his visitor of what he stood
in the greatest need, the poor sufferer replied, cheerfully, I
need nothing, For Brother Gerard has been with me a
short time ago. He has relieved all my wants. Theodore's
(03:55):
surprise may be imagined for the moment he was dumbfounded.
Then he said bluntly that that was certainly untrue, as
he had himself been with Brother Gerard in the convent
at the very time that he was supposed to be
paying this visit of charity. But when the sick man
persisted in his assertion and in confirmation thereof produced the
(04:16):
presence that the Holy Brother had just made him, there
was no longer any room for reasonable doubt, at least
in the mind of one who knew the gifts and
sanctity of the servant of God. It was clearly a
case of by location, Father Tenoia, than whom no one
had better opportunities of knowing the truth, and whose evidence
(04:37):
is beyond suspicion tells us that Saint Gerard made frequent
use of this most marvelous endowment. Thus, once, on not
receiving some news that he expected for morrow, he said quietly,
I must go there tomorrow. It was afterwards stated on
unexceptionable authority that he was seen in Morrow the next
(04:59):
day day, although on the other hand, it is equally
certain that he did not leave the convent at Capiselle.
The mysterious presence of the Saint in more than one
place at the same moment of time was sometimes both
effected and apprehended, not visibly, but in a spiritual manner.
(05:20):
He was, as we know, throughout his life, often supernaturally
apprised of events occurrying at a distance, and towards the end,
as he became more and more emancipated from the shackles
of the flesh, the sphere of his soul's activity was
so enlarged by Almighty God that he was able to
make his advent felt among his friends, who were, as
(05:44):
regards the body, far away from him at the time.
We may easily believe that the impression made upon the
minds of those whom he thus visited was more vivid
and more lasting than would have been the case had
his presence been recognized merely according to the manner with
which custom has rendered us all familiar. Thus, doctor Saintarelli,
(06:07):
the medical attendant of the community and a great friend
of Saint Gerard, made the following statement. As I was
one day making my usual round of visits to my patients,
wherever I went, I felt Brother Gerard by my side
as really as if I had seen him with my eyes.
My duties finished, I went to the convent, and on
(06:30):
meeting him, I asked him, what were you about accompanying
me in that fashion? All the morning, do you not know?
He answered that I have to go away tomorrow, so
I wished to visit all my poor people with you
before leaving. Saintarelli's own family once experienced a somewhat similar marvel.
(06:51):
Saint Gerard was at their house, and on leaving he
said that he would come back in the evening. The
doctor smiled, as he knew that it was against the
rules of the house for him to go out without
necessity after the evening. Angelus, I am not joking, said
the brother. I will come back, not in the body,
but in the spirit. As a matter of fact, that
(07:16):
night Doctor Santarelli's sister Monica saw Gerard fixing his searching
gaze upon her. She said that she was ready to
declare upon oath if necessary, that it was no mere imagination,
but that she had really seen the Holy brother. The
lies of the saints show us that some of God's
(07:36):
chosen servants had received from him the gift of rendering
themselves invisible to the eyes of men. This extraordinary favor
was not refused to Saint Gerard. He was once making
his monthly retreat when the Father Rector, chancing to require
his services, sent for him to his room. Gerard was
(07:59):
not there. They looked in the oratory. He was not
there either. The whole house was searched from top to bottom.
All was in vain. He was nowhere to be found. Meanwhile,
doctor Saintarelli called the rector, hastened to tell him the news.
Brother Gerard was lost. Saintarelli laughingly suggested, perhaps he is
(08:23):
hidden under the bed to be quiet on his retreat day.
Let us go and look. Taking a brother with him.
The doctor went himself to Gerard's room, but all to
no purpose. It does not matter, said Saintarelli. On his return.
He knew Saint Gerard well, and added, when the time
for communion comes, you will see that he will leave
(08:45):
his hiding place. So it happened Gerard duly appeared in
the church to receive holy communion after his thanksgiving. The
father rector asked him where he had been all the morning?
My room was the answer. In your room, rejoined the rector.
We went there twice to look for you. Gerard said nothing,
(09:09):
but only smiled. However, on being told to explain this
seeming contradiction, he said, with all simplicity, as I feared
to be disturbed in my retreat, I begged of our
Lord the grace to become invisible. This once I forgive you,
said his rector, but see that you do not make
(09:30):
such prayers in the future. Saint Gerard's room had no
furniture excepting a small table and a bed. There is
nothing that could have, naturally speaking, prevented him from being seen.
We can only exclaim that God is wonderful in his saints,
and that he will refuse nothing to their prayers. It
(09:53):
sometimes happened that Gerard exercised his supernatural gifts in circumstances
that will appear almost trivial if we fail to remember
that when there is question of doing a kind act,
nothing is trivial in the sight of God. Thus, one day,
meeting a lady named Candida Fungarelli, he asked her to
(10:14):
give him a little white silk out of which to
make a veil for asaborium. She said that, of course
she would be delighted, and on her return home, did
her best to find what was wanted. However, not succeeding,
she made up her mind to cut it out of
her wedding dress. Next day, Gerard saw her again and
(10:35):
told her at once, before she alluded to the subject
at all that she was not to spoil her wedding
dress for the sake of two little pieces of silk.
He said that if she made a fresh search, he
was sure that she would find what would serve his purpose.
The lady was thunderstruck at seeing him thus disclose a
secret intention which she had not made known to any
(10:58):
human being. On her return home, acting on Gerrard's advice,
she looked again, found the silk, as he had told
her would be the case, and brought it to him.
At the convent. One day after holy communion, the saint
withdrew to make his thanksgiving before a large crucifix. He
(11:19):
was at this time discharging the office of cook in
the community, but wrapt in contemplation on the passion of
our Lord. He allowed the hours to glide by until
the bell rang for dinner, without his having left the
oratory where he was praying. They looked for him all
over the house. When at last he was found, the
(11:39):
brother said to him, Gerard, what have you been about?
The bell has rung for dinner and the kitchen is locked.
Nn of little faith, replied Gerard, what had the angels
to do all the while to the amazement of the
whole house. The dinner that day was like one given
on great feast days. Our Lord had called his servant
(12:02):
to spend the morning in loving colloquy with himself. It
was impossible that others should suffer from his obedience to
the voice of God. His conduct, due to an extraordinary inspiration,
was thus even by miracle, stamped with the divine approval.
Greater and greater waxed the Saint's power over the hearts
(12:25):
of men as the end drew near. One notable conversion
in particular belongs to this period of his life. The
Archbishop of Conza had come to spend a few days
with their redemptiest fathers, and had brought with him his
confidential secretary, a Roman by birth, a man full of
(12:45):
wit and merriment. But this exterior light heartedness was only
the cloak of interior misery. His conscience was in a
deplorable state. Gerard had hardly seen him, when by a
divine light he knew all at once. He determined to
win this soul for God. Accordingly, he deliberately put himself
(13:09):
in the way of the secretary whenever he met him.
He used to chat with him, laughing at his jokes
and encouraging his witticisms. One day, in Italian fashion, he
embraced the poor man with affectionate warmth. This was the
turning point. The little mark of friendship had won his heart.
(13:29):
There was no longer any necessity to seek him out.
He haunted Gerard like his shadow. At last, the saint
saw that the hour had come for action. Having brought
his captive of love into the community oratory, he knelt
down before him, and then, with tears in his eyes,
made an appeal to his better feelings and higher nature.
(13:53):
My dear friend, he said, I cannot understand how you
are able to live in enmity with God and yet
always be so cheerful. You cannot deny that you are
a married man, and that your wife is living in Rome.
How then, is it that you venture to pretend to
be unmarried? How can you bring yourself thus to play
(14:16):
a poor woman false? The Saint continued in this stream
until at last, utterly overcome, the unhappy wretch knelt down,
in his turn, acknowledged everything, and entreated Saint Gerard to
pray for him and tell him what he should do.
To recover the friendship of God. Great was the charity
(14:38):
with which Gerard now dwelt on the infinite mercies of
Our Lord and his welcome for the repentant sinner. He
advised the secretary to make his confession at once to
Father Fiochi, who happened to be at the house. His
confession over, he went to the church to prepare for
holy communion. When a new prodigy occurred. Gerard went up
(15:03):
to him and asked him where he was going to
Holy communion? Was the reply given with some eagerness, wait
said Gerard, you forgot such and such a sin. Go
to confession again, and then you will have nothing on
your conscience when Our Lord comes to visit you. Utterly amazed,
(15:24):
the secretary went back to confess the sin which he
had completely forgotten, until thus miraculously reminded, and then his
soul refreshed by a second absolution. Full of joy, he
received the Bread of life. This conversion was both sincere
and lasting. No one could help observing the change that
(15:47):
had come over the demeanor of the once jovial secretary
until the archbishop himself asked him the cause. In the
fervor of his repentance. Gerard's convert did not hesitate to
acknowledge all, and ended with the words of the Samaritan
woman in the Gospel, Come and see the man who
(16:07):
has told me everything that I have done. Full of surprise,
the archbishop sought Gerard out and had several long conversations
with him. On his departure, he earnestly recommended himself to
the Holy Brother's prayers. Oh, my Lord, replied the servant
of God, I have need of all the divine mercy
(16:29):
to save my own soul. I beg of your grace
not to forget me at the altar. The archbishop never
lost the impression made upon him during that stay at Capiselee.
On their return to the archepiscopal residence, the change in
the secretary was the common talk of the place. All
(16:50):
his former gaiety seemed to have suddenly disappeared. One day,
the superior of the seminary asked him whatever could have
happened to him during his day absence. Then he too
was told the wonderful story. The poor secretary made no
secret of the fact that he could never again be
light hearted as of old until he had made reparation
(17:12):
to his injured wife. As soon as the necessary arrangements
could be made, he left for Rome to rejoin the
woman whom he had treated so badly, and who thus
recovered both her happiness and her husband through the instrumentality
of Saint Gerard. Even in Rome, the story was spread
(17:34):
far and wide, and at last a cardinal wrote to
ask that the wonderful brother should be sent to the
eternal City. But when this letter reached Capiselee Alas Gerard
was already dead. End of chapter sixteen,
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