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Blind Agnese: Or, The Little Spouse of the Blessed Sacrament

Cecilia Mary Caddell · 1853 · Scanned text · Free in the US

50,521 words · about 3 h 32 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD-US · Published 1853 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.

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About this book

Author
Cecilia Mary Caddell
Language
English
Published
1853
Length
50,521 words · about 3 h 32 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Dedication about 1 min
  3. Chapter I about 3 h 31 min

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Front matter

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Dedication

and to the Mother— so often and so deeply wounded in the injurious treatment cast upon the Son. Present it to him, I pray thee,^ and give thy maternal benediction to me, and the little ones for whom I write. Engrave indelibly on their tender hearts the lesson I have sought to trace. Teach them that none are too young to love Jesus, none too little or too low to be loved by him. Persuade them, as none but thou canst do, sweet Mother, that He, who from out of the Judean crowd did deign to call one little as themoelves, and to impart to that young child a father’s benediction, will likewise give to them His blessing, and lift their hearts to higher thoughts and holier aspirations, each time they kneel before Him in His Eucharistic Presence; there to offer, through thy pure heart and hands, their tribute of most grateful love to His Divine and Sacred Heart, in the ever

adorable Sacrament of the Altar j

Feast of the Pure Heart of Mary,

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