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  1  Pref,   2     |    authentic and virile note of a saint unlike any to be found in
  2  Pref,   2     |      laugh at me and say: "What a Saint Paul she is, with her heavenly
  3  Pref,   2     |         heavenly visions! Quite a Saint Jerome!"14~
  4  Pref,   2     |       vision is of Christ or of a saint:~Aun ya el Se-or, cuando
  5  Pref,   2     |          it seems easier; but the saint who speaks not, but seems
  6  Pref,   2     | recognized; but even when it is a saint, and no words are spoken,
  7  Pref,   2     |      watch for, and preserve, the Saint's colloquialisms. Even in
  8  Pref,   2     |           and phrases. One of the Saint's most frequent exclamations,
  9  Abbr          |             The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Doctor
 10  Intr,   0     |           of books written by the Saint amounts in all to twelve.48~
 11  Intr,   0     |          quite unlike that of the Saint and it bears the marks of
 12  Intr,   0     |          great many copies of the Saint's writings were made very
 13  Intr,   0     |      which decided to publish the Saint's complete works. The editorship
 14  Intr,   0     |           tale of editions of the Saint's works -- still less enumerate
 15  Intr,   0     |        collection yet made of the Saint's letters -- four hundred
 16  Intr,   0     |      centuries elapsed before the Saint began to be widely read
 17  Intr,   0     |           to our knowledge of the Saint and her times by the learned
 18  Intr,   0     |          in her appreciation of a Saint on whom one of her seventeenth-century
 19  Intr,   0     |                He begins with the Saint's earliest and fundamental
 20  Intr,   0     |           as with the life of the Saint.~
 21  Intr,   0     |    edification of the nuns of the Saint's first foundation -- St.
 22  Unic,   3     |        would read the epistles of Saint Jerome;77 and these inspired
 23  Unic,   5(86) |        marks were not made by the Saint.~
 24  Unic,   6     |         how she took the glorious Saint Joseph for her mediator
 25  Unic,   6     |    advocate and lord the glorious Saint Joseph and commended myself
 26  Unic,   6     |           me through this blessed saint, and at the perils from
 27  Unic,   6     |  necessities but of this glorious saint my experience is that he
 28  Unic,   6     |          devoted to this glorious saint, for I have great experience
 29  Unic,   6(92) |       yearly festival of some one saint to whom she might be particularly
 30  Unic,   6     |       favours which this glorious saint has granted to me and to
 31  Unic,   6     |          without giving thanks to Saint Joseph for the way he helped
 32  Unic,   6     |        let him take this glorious saint as his master and he will
 33  Unic,   6     |        Thy mercy I might say with Saint Paul, though not so perfectly
 34  Unic,   7(94) |                               The Saint wrote, no doubt inadvertently, "
 35  Unic,   9     |           myself to that glorious Saint so that she might obtain
 36  Unic,   9     |          given the Confessions of Saint Augustine,103 and I think
 37  Unic,   9     |        have a great affection for Saint Augustine, because the convent
 38  Unic,   9(103)|          the edition given to the Saint, the incident supports a
 39  Unic,   9     |     myself often to that glorious Saint. When I got as far as his
 40  Unic,  11     |         thoughts into the mind of Saint Jerome in the desert.109~
 41  Unic,  13     |         bear in mind the words of Saint Paul, that everything is
 42  Unic,  13     |         as were also the words of Saint Augustine: "Give me, Lord,
 43  Unic,  13     |        used often to reflect that Saint Peter had lost nothing by
 44  Unic,  15     |        for it to desire and, like Saint Peter, it wishes that it
 45  Unic,  16(134)|          some hand other than the Saint's -- probably by P. B‡-ez.~
 46  Unic,  18     |         the Order of the glorious Saint Dominic145: he told me that
 47  Unic,  19     |         that I wanted to become a saint, and that I was inventing
 48  Unic,  19(148)|        verse no doubt escaped the Saint's memory. [The Latin opening
 49  Unic,  19     |        but many times. He forgave Saint Peter once; but me He has
 50  Unic,  19     |           a friar of the Order of Saint Dominic,149 a very learned
 51  Unic,  20     |  loneliness (except that, being a saint, he may have been granted
 52  Unic,  20     |         to remember some words of Saint Paul, about his being crucified
 53  Unic,  20     |         the frenzies described by Saint Vincent.159 I know, for
 54  Unic,  21     |          life. It understands why Saint Paul besought God to deliver
 55  Unic,  21     |         must have been. What must Saint Paul and the Magdalen have
 56  Unic,  22     |          allows him to stand with Saint John, at the foot of the
 57  Unic,  22     |          us consider the glorious Saint Paul, from whose lips the
 58  Unic,  22     |   followed exactly the same road. Saint Francis, with his stigmata,
 59  Unic,  22     |         illustrates this, as does Saint Anthony of Padua with the
 60  Unic,  22     |           with the Divine Infant. Saint Bernard, too, delighted
 61  Unic,  22     |     Christ's Humanity, and so did Saint Catherine of Siena and many
 62  Unic,  22     |       unworthiness, and says with Saint Peter: "Depart from me,
 63  Unic,  23     |           the humble minded! This saint (for so I think I can rightly
 64  Unic,  23     |          my hands, those words of Saint Paul, that God is very faithful
 65  Unic,  27     |           and commended myself to Saint Hilarion and to Saint Michael
 66  Unic,  27     |          to Saint Hilarion and to Saint Michael the Angel, for whom,
 67  Unic,  27     |          festival of the glorious Saint Peter when I saw Christ
 68  Unic,  27(211)|                   This Franciscan saint [of whom an account will
 69  Unic,  27(218)|         403], describing her as a saint.~
 70  Unic,  28     |                      One year, on Saint Paul's Day,221 when I was
 71  Unic,  29     |        tears. I would also invoke Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for
 72  Unic,  29     |       also invoke Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for the Lord had told
 73  Unic,  29(232)|        and 1574. The heart of the Saint has not unnaturally been
 74  Unic,  30     |         the Order of the glorious Saint Francis. Discusses the severe
 75  Unic,  30     |     Primitive Rule of the blessed Saint Francis in all its rigour,
 76  Unic,  30     |         and to my glorious father Saint Joseph, who seemed to me
 77  Unic,  30     |      General of the Custody238 of Saint Joseph, to whom, as to Our
 78  Unic,  30     |          to take up the Life of a saint, to see if I could become
 79  Unic,  30     |        comfort in thinking of the saint's sufferings. But I read
 80  Unic,  30(241)|         third Sunday in Lent, the Saint could have read as a child
 81  Unic,  31(243)|           de Toledo, who were the Saint's confessors from about
 82  Unic,  31(245)|            Chap. XXII) thinks the Saint had contemplated going to
 83  Unic,  31(246)|            From letters which the Saint wrote to her brother, Don
 84  Unic,  32     |      means whereby the convent of Saint Joseph was founded in the
 85  Unic,  32     |          that it should be called Saint Joseph's; that He256 would
 86  Unic,  32(259)|                               The Saint's niece Teresita related [
 87  Unic,  32     |           of God, of the Order of Saint Dominic,260 and to him she
 88  Unic,  32(260)|          Pedro Ib‡-ez, one of the Saint's chief supporters in the
 89  Unic,  33     |           convent of the glorious Saint Joseph. Tells how she was
 90  Unic,  33     |        going to pay some workmen, Saint Joseph, my true father and
 91  Unic,  33     |                                On Saint Clare's day, as I was going
 92  Unic,  33     |          going to Communion, that Saint appeared to me in great
 93  Unic,  33     |           observed by the blessed Saint in her own house is being
 94  Unic,  33     |           may be, of this blessed Saint -- the Lord is doing still
 95  Unic,  33(272)|        property in common, as the Saint had not at that time decided
 96  Unic,  33     |         the Order of the glorious Saint Dominic, thinking of the
 97  Unic,  33     |          right hand and my father Saint Joseph on my left, and it
 98  Unic,  33     |           by serving the glorious Saint Joseph and that I might
 99  Unic,  33(273)|      believed to have come to the Saint in 1561, in the chapel known
100  Unic,  33     |          quite soft. The glorious Saint Joseph I did not see so
101  Unic,  34     |         religious of the Order of Saint Dominic:286 especially about
102  Unic,  34(290)|        Barrientos, husband of the Saint's half-sister Mar'a (ch.
103  Unic,  35     |      house of our glorious father Saint Joseph. Tells how the Lord
104  Unic,  36     |           convent of the glorious Saint Joseph, and the great opposition
105  Unic,  36     |          should take the habit on Saint Bartholomew's Day and on
106  Unic,  36     |          our most glorious father Saint Joseph was founded in the
107  Unic,  36(311)|       Santos), recommended to the Saint by Gaspar Daza; Mar'a de
108  Unic,  36     |   dedicated to my glorious father Saint Joseph. Not that I thought
109  Unic,  36     |         me and besought my father Saint Joseph to bring me back
110  Unic,  36     |        Presentado of the Order of Saint Dominic,317 who was not
111  Unic,  37     |          occurred to me that some saint may have said that they
112  Unic,  38     |      laugh at me and say: "What a Saint Paul she is, with her heavenly
113  Unic,  38     |         heavenly visions! Quite a Saint Jerome!" Because these glorious
114  Unic,  38     |          a Father of the Order of Saint Dominic, though I thought
115  Unic,  38     |        away, he had told him that Saint Thomas was with him. He
116  Unic,  40     |          well put by the glorious Saint Augustine, who says that
117  Unic,  40     |           have seen this glorious Saint several times and he has
118  Unic,  40     |           and make you so great a saint that your spirituality and
119 Lette          |             LETTER WRITTEN BY THE SAINT TO FATHER GARCIA DE TOLEDO