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Blessed Anna Maria Taigi EDITED BY EDWARD HEALY THOMPSON, M, A. 1874
CHAPTER VII.
ANNA MARIA'S HEROIC FAITH ; AND HER DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED
TRINITY.
Faith habitual and actual. Its powerful effects ; its inactivity
in many Christians. The energy of Anna Maria's faith
;Cardinal Pedicini's testimony thereto. Her detestation of
heresy, and grief at blasphemies against God and His truth.
Her unaffected piety in conversation. Profound veneration
for the sacraments. Zeal in observing the precepts of the
Church, and high esteem of sacramentals. Unquestioning
obedience to her confessor. Ardent love of the Church, and
devotion to the Holy See. Her vivid spiritual perceptions.
Special cultus of the Blessed Trinity characteristic of a high
perfection. Anna Maria's reception into the Third Order
of the Trinitarians. Her first sight of the mysterious sun.
Her punctual observance of the exercises of the association
]^age 83
CHAPTER VIII.
ANNA MARIA*S SUBLIME HOPE AND CONFIDENCE IN GOD.
Hope distinguished from faith. Its acts and objects. Anna
Maria's hope in God the counterpart of her self-distrust.
Her aversion to timidity and despondency. Her undoubting
trust visibly recompensed by God. Confidence in divine
aid and the intercession of the saints. Persevering prayer,
united with active labour. Refusal to accept relief for herself
or family ; the motives of this, Domenico's conduct in
the matter. Deposition of her daughter Sofia. Her relations
with the Queen of Etruria. Exceptions to her rule of
declining alms. Her eon Camillo drawn for the conscription.
Her persistence in practising mortification. InXVm
CONTENTS.
stances of her exhorting others to like trust in Providence.
Her holy familiarity with God .... page 103
CHAPTER IX.
ANNA MARIA'S HEROIC HABIT TOWARDS GOD AND TOWARDS HER
NEIGHBOUR.
The excellence of charity ; its object and motive. Anna Maria's
ardent love of God. Its evidences. Her wonderful
ecstasies. How misconceived and misjudged ; even by her
own family. Her holy sobriety ; and undisturbed peace of
mind. Her labour's for the poor. Her works of mercy.
Solicitude for conversion of criminals. Charity to the sick.
Special gift of consolation. Continual intercessory prayer.-
Her sympathy and compassion. Her grace of listening.
Kindness to animals. Testimony of her confessor, page 127
CHAPTER X.
ANNA MARIA A SHINING EXAMPLE OF ALL THE VIRTUES.
Difficulty of selecting her characteristic virtues. She may be
called a compendium of all. Patience the school of perfection.
Anna Maria the object of calumny. Instances of her
forgiving charity and meekness. Her mastery over her natural
disposition. Silence under insult. Her complicated
maladies. Serenity and cheerfulness in suffering. Her
profound humility. Dread of human praise and distinction.
Self-withdrawal and respectfulness to others. Avoidance
of all self-excuses. Concealment of spiritual gifts. Her
frank sincerity j^age 152
CHAPTER XI.
ANNA MARIA'S DEVOTION TO THE MYSTERIES OP THE INFANCY AND
PASSION, AND TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT.
Bethlehem and Calvary her two abodes. Her devout visits to
chuirches. Her love and compassion for her enemies. Tender
devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Precious Blood.
She becomes a daily communicant. Her fervours and raptures
at Communion. Instance of her perfect unconsciousness.
These raptures almost habitual; their effects on
others. Her gift of discerning the presence of the Blessed
Sacrament. Miraculous manifestations . . page 174
CONTENTS. XIX
CHAPTEB XII.
ANNA MARIA'S DEVOTION TO THE MOTHER OP GOD, AND TO THE
SAINTS AND ANGELS—HER CHARITY TO THE HOLY SOULS IN
PURGATORY.
Love for Mary correlative with love for Jesus. Mary the mother
of souls. Anna Maria's filial confidence in her. The
Blessed Vii'gin dictates to her a prayer. The Madonna of
Fra Petronio. Vision of our Lady as Mediatrix of Intercession.
Saints to whom Anna Maria had a special devotion.
Her colloquies with her guardian angel. Her tender solicitude
for souls in Purgatory. Their relief a part of her mis-
sion . • page 183
CHAPTER XIII.
ANNA MARIA A VICTIM OF EXPIATION.
The weapons of the Church, not carnal, but spiritual. Chosen
souls the victims of divine justice. Her special mission revealed
to Anna Maria. Her generous acceptance of it. Refusal
of spiritual consolations a question of vocation. Her
interior desolation. Exterior trials. Bodily ailments. Infernal
assaults. Distressing conferences with hardened
sinners. Conversion of a Carhonaro. Diabolical temptations
and apparitions. Extraordinary divine locution. Her
peculiar conformity with the sufferings of our Lord. His
testimony thereto j^age 195
CHAPTER XIV.
ANNA MARIA'S VISION OP THE MYSTERIOUS SUN.
Scepticism of the age. Anna Maria a witness to the
supernatural.
Her special Apostleship. Divine origin of her
extraordinary gift. Description of the mysterious sun.
Symbolic interpretation thereof. Her gift compared with
those of St. Frances of Rome and St. Hildegarde. Her
mission contrasted with that of St. Catherine of Siena. The
gift permanent; not habitual; nor uninterrupted in its
exercise 'page 219
CHAPTER VII.
ANNA MARIA'S HEROIC FAITH ; AND HER DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED
TRINITY.
Faith habitual and actual. Its powerful effects ; its inactivity
in many Christians. The energy of Anna Maria's faith
;Cardinal Pedicini's testimony thereto. Her detestation of
heresy, and grief at blasphemies against God and His truth.
Her unaffected piety in conversation. Profound veneration
for the sacraments. Zeal in observing the precepts of the
Church, and high esteem of sacramentals. Unquestioning
obedience to her confessor. Ardent love of the Church, and
devotion to the Holy See. Her vivid spiritual perceptions.
Special cultus of the Blessed Trinity characteristic of a high
perfection. Anna Maria's reception into the Third Order
of the Trinitarians. Her first sight of the mysterious sun.
Her punctual observance of the exercises of the association
]^age 83
CHAPTER VIII.
ANNA MARIA*S SUBLIME HOPE AND CONFIDENCE IN GOD.
Hope distinguished from faith. Its acts and objects. Anna
Maria's hope in God the counterpart of her self-distrust.
Her aversion to timidity and despondency. Her undoubting
trust visibly recompensed by God. Confidence in divine
aid and the intercession of the saints. Persevering prayer,
united with active labour. Refusal to accept relief for herself
or family ; the motives of this, Domenico's conduct in
the matter. Deposition of her daughter Sofia. Her relations
with the Queen of Etruria. Exceptions to her rule of
declining alms. Her eon Camillo drawn for the conscription.
Her persistence in practising mortification. InXVm
CONTENTS.
stances of her exhorting others to like trust in Providence.
Her holy familiarity with God .... page 103
CHAPTER IX.
ANNA MARIA'S HEROIC HABIT TOWARDS GOD AND TOWARDS HER
NEIGHBOUR.
The excellence of charity ; its object and motive. Anna Maria's
ardent love of God. Its evidences. Her wonderful
ecstasies. How misconceived and misjudged ; even by her
own family. Her holy sobriety ; and undisturbed peace of
mind. Her labour's for the poor. Her works of mercy.
Solicitude for conversion of criminals. Charity to the sick.
Special gift of consolation. Continual intercessory prayer.-
Her sympathy and compassion. Her grace of listening.
Kindness to animals. Testimony of her confessor, page 127
CHAPTER X.
ANNA MARIA A SHINING EXAMPLE OF ALL THE VIRTUES.
Difficulty of selecting her characteristic virtues. She may be
called a compendium of all. Patience the school of perfection.
Anna Maria the object of calumny. Instances of her
forgiving charity and meekness. Her mastery over her natural
disposition. Silence under insult. Her complicated
maladies. Serenity and cheerfulness in suffering. Her
profound humility. Dread of human praise and distinction.
Self-withdrawal and respectfulness to others. Avoidance
of all self-excuses. Concealment of spiritual gifts. Her
frank sincerity j^age 152
CHAPTER XI.
ANNA MARIA'S DEVOTION TO THE MYSTERIES OP THE INFANCY AND
PASSION, AND TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT.
Bethlehem and Calvary her two abodes. Her devout visits to
chuirches. Her love and compassion for her enemies. Tender
devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Precious Blood.
She becomes a daily communicant. Her fervours and raptures
at Communion. Instance of her perfect unconsciousness.
These raptures almost habitual; their effects on
others. Her gift of discerning the presence of the Blessed
Sacrament. Miraculous manifestations . . page 174
CONTENTS. XIX
CHAPTEB XII.
ANNA MARIA'S DEVOTION TO THE MOTHER OP GOD, AND TO THE
SAINTS AND ANGELS—HER CHARITY TO THE HOLY SOULS IN
PURGATORY.
Love for Mary correlative with love for Jesus. Mary the mother
of souls. Anna Maria's filial confidence in her. The
Blessed Vii'gin dictates to her a prayer. The Madonna of
Fra Petronio. Vision of our Lady as Mediatrix of Intercession.
Saints to whom Anna Maria had a special devotion.
Her colloquies with her guardian angel. Her tender solicitude
for souls in Purgatory. Their relief a part of her mis-
sion . • page 183
CHAPTER XIII.
ANNA MARIA A VICTIM OF EXPIATION.
The weapons of the Church, not carnal, but spiritual. Chosen
souls the victims of divine justice. Her special mission revealed
to Anna Maria. Her generous acceptance of it. Refusal
of spiritual consolations a question of vocation. Her
interior desolation. Exterior trials. Bodily ailments. Infernal
assaults. Distressing conferences with hardened
sinners. Conversion of a Carhonaro. Diabolical temptations
and apparitions. Extraordinary divine locution. Her
peculiar conformity with the sufferings of our Lord. His
testimony thereto j^age 195
CHAPTER XIV.
ANNA MARIA'S VISION OP THE MYSTERIOUS SUN.
Scepticism of the age. Anna Maria a witness to the
supernatural.
Her special Apostleship. Divine origin of her
extraordinary gift. Description of the mysterious sun.
Symbolic interpretation thereof. Her gift compared with
those of St. Frances of Rome and St. Hildegarde. Her
mission contrasted with that of St. Catherine of Siena. The
gift permanent; not habitual; nor uninterrupted in its
exercise 'page 219
APPENDIX.Acchiappaladri
FRAGMENTS OF ANNA MARIA TAIGl S PREDICTIONS. HER PROPHECIES
COMPARED WITH THOSE OF OTHER GIFTED SOULS.
The following fragments were collected by P. Calixte,
and he says that he had them from the lips of persons
worthy of credit.
When the judgment she announced shall overtake the
wicked, the dead bodies round Rome will be as numerous
as the fish which a (then) recent …More
FRAGMENTS OF ANNA MARIA TAIGl S PREDICTIONS. HER PROPHECIES
COMPARED WITH THOSE OF OTHER GIFTED SOULS.
The following fragments were collected by P. Calixte,
and he says that he had them from the lips of persons
worthy of credit.
When the judgment she announced shall overtake the
wicked, the dead bodies round Rome will be as numerous
as the fish which a (then) recent inundation of the Tiber
had carried into that city. All the enemies of the Church,
secret as well as known, will perish during the darkness,
with the exception of some whom God shall soon after
convert. The air shall be infected by demons, who will
appear under all sorts of hideous forms. Blessed candles
will preserve from death, as well as prayers to the Blessed
Virgin and the lioly angels. After the darkness, St. Peter
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and St. Paul shall descend to preach throughout the earth.
A great light emanating from them shall rest upon him
whom God has chosen for the future Pope (the Lumen in
Ccelo of St. Malachi's well-known prophecy) . St. Michael,
appearing on earth, shall chain up Satan until the times
of the preaching of Antichrist. Religion will everywhere
extend its empire. Hussia will be converted, as will also
England and China ; and all nations will rejoice in contemplating
this splendid triumph of the Church. Then
will be accomplished the prophecy of our Lord :
* There
shall be one fold and one shepherd.' After this, the Santa
Casa of Loreto will be transported by angels to Ptome
into the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. P. Calixte
observes that the Blessed Joseph Labre had made a similar
prediction, and had also said that it would be transferred
before the end of the world to France.
P. Cahxte has something of his own to add to these
various current reports. ' A pious prelate,' he says, * a
Cameriere Segreto of his Holiness, assured him that Anna
Maria foretold the definition of the Immaculate Conception,
the holding of the Vatican Council, and the proclamation
of Pontifical Infallibility, in spite of the long and
insidious opposition of the principal Catholic states. He
also said that she announced the sanguinary struggle
which has taken place between Prussia and France, and
the humiliation and enfeeblement of the latter because she
had forgotten her obligations as eldest daughter of the
Church. To the horrors of foreign and civil war were to
succeed sanguinary conflicts with the revolutionary faction;
and this state of desolation was to last until the
people of France should cast themselves at the feet of the
Sovereign Pontiff, conjuring him to put an end thereto
by an act of his supreme authority. The Pope would then
send a legate into France to inquire into the state of things,
and, on the report made to him, would name a Christian
king to occupy its throne.'
To these fragments of reported....
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p. 314 her confidant, D. Eaffaele IN'ataK, to whom, under obedience,
she made known all her revelations, and who
God willed should survive her so many years. This
scourge, he told many persons, was to be a supernatural
darkness, which was to prevail for three days,*'^* during
which blessed candles would alone give light.
she made known all her revelations, and who
God willed should survive her so many years. This
scourge, he told many persons, was to be a supernatural
darkness, which was to prevail for three days,*'^* during
which blessed candles would alone give light.
