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Learn from one of the Church's great mystics, Saint Frances of Rome. In this book, she narrates her visions to her spiritual director, Canon Giovanni Matteoni. He records her visions of the geography of hell and the state of limbo. She describes the punishments for various sins such as perverts, usurers, blasphemers, traitors, murderers, apostates, schismatics, incestuous people, witches and more. She also talks about the particular torments due to the seven deadly sins and the punishments for theft, dishonoring parents, breaking vows of chastity and selling daughters into prostitution. In addition to these visions of hell, Saint Frances also shares her visions of purgatory and heaven. She talks about the condition of souls in purgatory and the glories of heaven and so much more. Her visions will provide you with rich meditations on the realities of the Four Last Things.

"From Agatha to Zeno, this book presents the images and attributes of more than one hundred saints, those most frequently encountered in sacred art, history and legend, tradition and devotional literature. Lavishly illustrated, this book introduces the saints with their identifying attributes, notes on their lives and martyrdoms, and visual references that make it easy to identify their characters and legends and the forms of worship for each."--BOOK JACKET.

Whether you are an atheist, an agnostic or a true believer and disciple of Jesus Christ, you will be mystified at what you learn from The Stigmata. The Stigmata examines such other worldly phenomena, one could liken it to a spiritual X-files episode. Christ’s death and resurrection was not the end, but the beginning for us all. Jesus’ agonizing suffering, sacrifice and surrender of his own life opened the gates of heaven to all those willing to follow Him. The stigmatics serve as an earthly human reminder of the Divine Jesus’ obedient, holy and sacrificial offering to us. The Stigmata is a compilation of some 657 individuals from the 13th to the 21st centuries who have incomprehensibly borne the wounds suffered by Christ. The Stigmata discusses many of the stigmatics in biographical detail. Some stigmatics are recognized saints, such as St. Padre Pio and St. Therese Neumann. Sainted or not, all stigmatics suffer in some way like Christ, bearing evidence of nail piercings to the hands and feet, the crown of thorns and sword laceration near the heart. Have there been fraudulent stigmatics? Yes, and The Stigmata discusses the fakes, separating them like wheat from chaff. Aside from the painful and bloody wounds these individuals suffer, many stigmatics exhibit other miraculous mysteries, from levitation and bi-location to reading of souls and other human impossibilities. The pain the stigmatics have endured is real, the phenomena they’ve experienced is mystical and their complete impact on the world is known only to God.

This classic of mystical theology was written by Augustin Poulain, S.J. (1836-1919). It contains the following chapters: I. Principal Definitions II. Of the Four Degrees of Ordinary Prayer and of the Last Two in Particular III. The Various Kinds of Mystical Graces IV. Historical Explanation of the Word Contemplation V. First Fundamental Character of the Mystic Union: God’s Presence Felt VI. Second Second Fundamental Character of the Mystic Union: The Interior Possession of God: The Manner in Which it is Felt VII. The Mystic Union: Its Ten Subsidiary Characters. Description of the First. VIII. The Fourth and Fifth Characters of the Mystic Union IX. The Sixth Character of the Mystic Union X. The Seventh and Eighth Characters of the Mystic Union XI. The Ninth Character of the Mystic Union XII. The Tenth Character of the Mystic Union XIII. The Eleventh Character of the Mystic Union XIV. Twelfth Characteristic of the Mystic Union: The Ligature XV. The Two Nights of the Soul, the Borderland of the Mystic State XVI. Further Details Regarding the Prayer of Quiet (the First Stage of the Mystic Union) XVII. Details Regarding the Full Union (The Second Stage of the Mystic Union) XVIII. Ecstasy (The Third Stage of the Mystic Union) XIX. The Spiritual Marriage (Fourth and Last Stage of the Mystic Union) XXI. On Revelations and Visions (Of Created Things) Descriptive XXI. Revelations and Visions (continued) Illusions to be avoided XXII. Revelations and Visions (continued) Course to be Followed in our Judgments With Regard to Them XXIII. Revelations and Visions (continued) Rules of Conduct XXIV. Trials XXV. On the Desire for the Mystic Union XXVI. Qualities Necessary for a Director XXVII. On Quietism XXVIII. Rarity or Frequency of the Mystic States XXIX. Terminology, and That of St. Teresa in Particular 1. Should infused contemplation be called a “gratuitous” grace [gratia gratis data]? XXX. Scientific Methods in Descriptive Mysticism XXXI. The Mystic Union O life, my thirsting spirit’s hidden need! Biographical Index

The reader will be appraised of how God has been speaking to His people through public and private revelation for over 2000 years. A special chapter in this work deals with some saints and holy people who have had private revelations about or visits from souls in purgatory, hell or heaven. Another chapter and several of the appendixes are devoted to Marian Apparitions to include those that are approved, not approved and those appending a decision by the Church. By far one of the greatest strengths of this undertaking is the identification of some 43 categories of concomitant extraordinary phenomena and some of the saints and holy people who have experienced them. Color paintings by artists are depicted of some saints experiencing such mystical phenomena. Another unique feature of the book is a listing of some 600 individuals from the 13th to the 21st centuries who bore the stigmata. By knowing that God is present and alive to His people this book may help bring others to a deeper faith in God.

The most thorough book about the Angels yet written! Here, bestselling author Joan Carroll Cruz expounds upon the traditional definitions and delineations of the Angels and Devils, asking and answering virtually every conceivable question about them. Among the many recent books about Angels, this has to be one of the very best, if not the very best yet. Definitely another Mrs. Cruz bestseller! Impr.