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Thursday, January 29, 2009

longing of the exile for his true home

The life of st. Stanislas Kostka, of the Society of Jesus By Stanislaus Kostka: "was light to the eyes music to the ears and honey in the mouth of Stanislas Then straightway he would raise his tearful eyes to heaven with that look of pathetic and longing sadness to which we before alluded the longing of the exile for his true home It was apparently with the object of having always before him that name in which all the sweetness of heaven and earth was to him summed up that he left it inscribed upon almost every leaf of the books which he was in the habit of reading if it were not rather that the heart had half unconsciously prompted the hand to write as the musing lover carves the name of the loved one on the forest trees At the foot of the pages and on the margin of his class books this invocation was commonly found written 0 Maria sis mihi pro pitial 0 Mary be propitious to me And in fact all his exercises were prepared under her immediate invocation and were all in a manner dedicated to her "
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