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This work is organized as a daily devotional. For each day the lives of that day's saints are told and devotional images and reflections presented. The text for the lives is drawn primarily from the old edition of Butler's lives.

the saints and angels, and sang the Divine praises almost continually. At length, on Whit-Sunday, he told his guards he should die within the week, and immediately fell ill. He received the last Sacraments; and the following Saturday, as he finished the concluding verse of Lauds, “Let every spirit bless the Lord!” he closed his eyes to this world and opened them to the vision of God. REFLECTION.—“Whoso,” says the Imitation of Christ, “with-draweth himself from acquaintances and friends, to him