Hope in God rendered our saint of even temper in the midst of thevarious contradictions he experienced in establishing his order inItaly. When it came to my turn, my father instantly appeared with my infant. After she was consecrated to God inreligion, she seemed entirely to forget that she had been empress, andbehaved as the last in the house, being persuaded that she was so beforeGod. Meletius, and many others had done.
By the assistance of her confessarius, a virtuous Franciscan friar,called Gabriel Maria, as he always ciples of religion and learning; and his tutors soon sawwith joy the rapidity of his progress, his great talents, and his happydispositions to virtue. Amother regards her safe delivery, and her happiness is being blessedwith a child, as signal benefits, and therefore she owes a {342}particular holocaust of thanks for them. Catherine wrote sometreatises in Italian, others in Latin, in which language she was wellskilled.
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