What mortifiesthe {417} senses and the flesh gives life to the spirit, and whatweakens and subdues the body strengthens the soul. Maruthas, author of these acts, fears not death; heloves God, and goes to him with an incredible ardor; but he who livesaccording They are honored on thisday in the Roman Martyrology. She was never canonized, butis honored with an office in all the churches in Hungary, especiallythose of the Dominicans in that kingdom, by virtue of a decree of PopePius II, as Touron assures us.
m soon after he was raised to theepiscopal dignity, either in the same year, 350, or in the following. We have her panegyrics by St. Catharine in meditating on thepassion of Christ, which was her daily exercise, but to which shetotally devoted herself every week from Thursday noon to three o'clockin the afternoon on Friday. Seeing herself in thehands of the persecutors, she made this prayer: Jesus Christ, Lord ofall things, you see my heart, you know my desire: possess alone all thatI am.
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