--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "tanhlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
from "Wife, Mother, and Mystic, The Life of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi" Tan Publishers, 1952. [lived in Rome, died in 1837.]. from p. 113, an account of levitation: "It was a great effort for her to withdraw herself for one instant from the thought of God. She would be cleaning saucepans, and suddenly Our Lord was there. She hastened to avert her gaze, and then, being overcome, remained in ecstasy, saucepan in hand. Sopie [her Daughter] depicts her sweeping cobwebs and being suddenly levitated while the hairs of the broom turned on empty air. Sophie was cry, "Mamma, where are you going? Up there there is no dirt." Her miraculous gift of supernatural vision, (p. 8-9): "Her intellectual gifts were altogether overshadowed by an unexampled miracle. Shortly after she had entered on the way of perfection, there began to appear to her a golden globe which became as a sun of matchless light; in this all things were revealed to her." "Past and future were to her an open book. She knew with certainty the fate of teh dead. Her gaze travelled to the ends of the earth and discovered there people on whom she had never set eyes, reading them to the depth of their souls. One glace sufficed; upon whatever she focused her thoughts it was revealed to her and her understanding. She saw the whole world as we see the front of a building. It was the same with nations as with individuals; she saw the cause of their distresses and the remedies that would heal them." On curing the sick, p. 10: "She touched the sick, and they were cured; she warned others of their approaching end, and they died holy deaths. She endured great austeries for the souls in Purgatory, and the souls, once set free, came to thank her..." --- End forwarded message --- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
