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Shorter and faster reading than our other abridgement, this book just flows and flows. It includes Our Lady's participation in the events of Our Lord's Passion and death. It shows how the Angels served the Blessed Virgin, how the devils waged war against her, the special graces she received--such as, continual Eucharistic presence of Our Lord after she received Communion, frequent visits to Heaven during her life on earth, etc. Impr. 430 pgs,

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 mars 1997
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781618903099
Langue	English

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Imprimatur:   James Frederic Wood, D.D.     Bishop of Philadelphia     April 25, 1872
Previously published by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, in approximately 1872, under the title The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary or The Divine Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary . Retypeset by TAN Books, an Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC. The type in this book is the property of TAN Books, and, except for brief selections, may not be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. (This restriction applies only to reproduction of this type, not to quotations from the book.) The footnotes herein are from the original 1872 edition, unless otherwise noted.
ISBN: 978-0-89555-596-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 96-61303
Cover illustration by Heinrich Kaiser.
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
TAN Books
An Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC
Charlotte, North Carolina
2010
DEDICATION
TO THE DIVINE HEART OF JESUS, TO MARY IMMACULATE, AND TO THE GLORIOUS ST. JOSEPH.
O Jesus! Only Son of the Eternal Father! Divine Redeemer of our souls! By choosing the august Mary from all eternity to be Thy Mother, Thou hast exalted her far above the Angels, and she has thus become the cause of our hope.
Word of God, Who hast loved men to excess, to Whom, if not to Thy Divine Heart, can I worthily present the offering of The Divine Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary? This book has been the source of great blessings to the humble translator; for this reason I dare, although unworthy, supplicate Thee to bless it anew, so that it may bear abundant fruits of benediction in the souls of its readers. Master of Eternal Wisdom! make it, as it has already been, a source of grace in the houses which it shall enter: by it may the sinner be converted and the just become more holy. Thus Thou wilt show how pleasing to Thee are the perfect love and fidelity ever entertained by the Queen of Heaven, for Thee her perfect Model.
O Mother of the Divine Jesus! Immaculate Virgin and Reparatrix! In thy merciful designs on men, thou hast deigned to communicate to us, by means of thy loving daughter and servant, Mary of Jesus of Agreda, The Mystical City, of which I offer thee this faithful abridgment; then, O Queen of Heaven, refuse not to bless it. Thou knowest that, overwhelmed by the infirmities and miseries of my soul, I have turned towards thee by the impulse of grace. Obtain that the trials which the publication of this book has caused me may, by thy powerful intercession, be changed into sources of great benedictions. In fine, it is to this “Mystical Life” that I owe the grace of being numbered among those who are dear to the Heart of thy Divine Son.
Glorious St. Joseph, whom the august Mary has permitted me to address as Father, thou knowest that to thee I owe my life and honor; to thy intercession, also, I am indebted for remaining faithful to God. Allow me then to place this work in thy hands. O thou who hast so worthily appreciated the Queen of Heaven, deign to obtain that the reading of her admirable life may serve as an instrument for the conversion of sinners and the sanctification of the just.
St. Ann and St. Joachim, worthy parents of the Queen of Heaven, deign to present to her the humble offering of this book. Obtain also that by your efficacious intercession, I may receive the grace of persevering until death in the vocation to which the Divine Jesus, by the mediation of Mary, has so gratuitously predestined and called me.
To Mary of Jesus of Agreda, to the seraph, M. Olier, to St. Teresa, to St. Margaret of Cortona, to St. Catherine of Siena and to St. Gertrude.
Live Jesus, Mary, Joseph.
—The Abbé J. A. Boullan
CONTENTS
Dedication
Approbations
Introduction to the Second Edition
Notice on the Works of the Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda
1.  The Most Holy Virgin in the Divine Counsels—Her Holy Parents 1
2.  The Immaculate Conception of Mary—Her Holy Exercises in Her Mother’s Womb
3.  The Happy Birth of Mary—First Fruits of Her Marvelous Life
4.  Her Holy Occupations—Her Presentation in the Temple
5.  Happy Death of Her Holy Parents-Persecutions to Which She Was Subjected
6.  Her Marriage With the Chaste St. Joseph
7.  How the Most High Prepared the Blessed Virgin and Filled Her with Grace, so as to Render Her Worthy of Being the Mother of God
8.  Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin—The Incarnation of the Word
9.  Her Visit to St. Elizabeth—Birth of St. John the Baptist
10.  The Blessed Virgin’s Return to Nazareth
11.  Journey to Bethlehem—The Birth of Jesus
12.  The Circumcision of Our Lord
13.  Arrival of the Magi—Adoration of the Divine Infant
14.  The Presentation in the Temple
15.  The Flight into Egypt
16.  Massacre of the Innocents
17.  The Return from Egypt to Nazareth
18.  Sickness and Precious Death of St. Joseph
19.  Preparation for the Public Life of Christ
20.  The Preaching of Our Saviour, and the Cooperation of the Blessed Mother
21.  The Triumphant Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem
22.  The Last Supper
23.  From the Beginning of Our Lord’s Passion until His Appearance at the Tribunal of Caiphas
24.  Continuation of the Passion until the Sentence of Death
25.  Jesus Ascends Calvary—His Death
26.  Our Lord’s Triumph on the Cross over Death and Hell—Council of the Demons against Mankind
27.  Piercing of Our Saviour’s Side with a Lance—His Burial—Return of the Blessed Virgin to the Supper-Room
28.  Resurrection of Our Lord—Great Joy of the Divine Mother—Other Marvels
29.  Ascension of Jesus into Heaven—Singular Favors Granted to His Blessed Mother
30.  Holy Exercises In the Supper-Room Before Pentecost
31.  The Descent of the Holy Ghost—What Happened to the Holy Virgin
32.  The Apostles Leave the Supper-Room to Preach—Miracles Operated by the Divine Mother
33.  The Apostles and Disciples Assemble to Resolve Some Doubts—St. Peter Celebrates the First Mass—Actions of the Blessed Virgin
34.  A New Miracle Operated by Jesus in Favor of His Holy Mother
35.  The Most Holy Virgin Knows that Lucifer Is Preparing to Persecute the Church—What She Does to Defend the Faithful
36.  The Virgin Mother’s Prudence in the Government of the Faithful—What She Did for St. Stephen
37.  The Holy Virgin Sends the Creed to the Disciples—The Apostles Separate for Different Parts of the World—Conversion of Saul-Other Miracles of the Great Queen
38.  New Plots of Lucifer against the Church—The Blessed Virgin Leaves Jerusalem, and Operates New Wonders
39.  Martyrdom of St. James—He is Assisted by the Divine Mother—Imprisonment and Deliverance of St. Peter—Many Marvels
40.  Heroic Virtues Exercised by the Holy Virgin at Herod’s Death—Fruits of St. John’s Zeal at Ephesus—Mary’s Triumph over Lucifer
41.  The Holy Virgin Returns to Jerusalem—Other Victories over Lucifer
42.  Final Triumph of the Holy Mother—The State to which the Lord Exalted Her
43.  What Mary Did while the Holy Gospels Were Being Written
44.  The Exercises of Piety Performed by the Holy Virgin—Her Preparation for Holy Communion
45.  Feasts Celebrated by the Queen of Angels
46.  The Archangel Gabriel Announces to the Blessed Virgin Her Happy Death- Other Marvels
47.  Happy Death of the Most Holy Virgin, and Burial of Her Most Pure Body
48.  Triumphant Entry of the August Soul of the of Her Body—Her Coronation
A Collection of Classic Artwork
Favorite Prayers to Our Lady
Hail Mary
Magnificat
Favorite Prayers to Our Lady
APPROBATIONS
The volume which we offer to the public under the title of The Divine Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a faithful abridgment, without change, alteration, or modification of the facts, taken entirely and literally from the celebrated work, The Mystical City, by Mary of Jesus of Agreda. Therefore, all the approbations granted to that admirable book may and ought to be applicable to this.
We append a summary of these divers approbations of which we can warrant the authenticity, having copied them from the acts of the process of the beatification and canonization of the above-mentioned servant of God, Mary of Agreda.
1st. Approbation of the Ordinary of the diocese wherein the servant of God died in the odor of sanctity, and also of the bishop of the place where the work was printed. The bishops are, as we all know, according to the canon law, the first judges of books published within their jurisdiction.
2nd. Approbation of the learned tribunal of the Inquisition in Spain, which, having examined the book word for word, authorized its publication and diffusion among the faithful.
3rd. Approbation of theologians of all religious bodies, Benedictines, Carmelites, Dominicans and Jesuits, called upon to examine the work. They have eulogized it in the highest terms and recommended it as the fruit of the Spirit of God.
4th. Approbation of the most celebrated universities of foreign lands, Salamanca, Louvain, Toulouse, etc., which after the most minute examinations have declared that the book contains nothing against faith or morals; they have exalted it immeasurably, as Pope Benedict XIV expresses it in his decree of 1748. The University of Paris alone is an exception, because it was, at that time, tainted with Jansenism, to which this work is so adverse.
5th. In fine, Pope Innocent XI, after having placed this work on the Index, August 4th, 1681, because, said the postulator of the cause of canonization, of the contests which it had raised, withdrew it himself three months later, November 9, 1681. This last decree has the force of a universal law of the Church, for in 1713, a bishop having forbidden the reading of this work, the Holy Office declared his prohibition null and obliged him to retract it, as being contrary to the decree of November 9, 1681, which decree, said the Sacred Congregation, has the power of a law throughout the universal Church. We know it is the same in our days. Alexander VIII authorized the reading