Showing posts with label The Glories of Mary. Show all posts
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
THE GLORIES OF MARY: A WICKED WOMAN
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In Mexico there was a WICKED WOMAN, who, having fallen sick, repented, and made a vow to Mary, that if she recovered, she would make her the offering of her HAIR...
She got well, and made the promised offering to a statue of the Blessed Virgin.
She, however, relapsed into sin; again fell ill, and died IMPENITENT...
One day after this had occurred, Mary SPOKE FROM THE STATUE to the Jesuit father John Mary Salvaterra, in the PRESENCE of a GREAT CONCOURSE of people, and said:
"Take this hair from my head, for it belongs to an IMPURE SOUL, who is already DAMNED; it does not, therefore, become the head of the Mother of PURITY."
The father obeyed, and without delay threw it into the FIRE...
Excerpt from: THE GLORIES OF MARY
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
(with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur)
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