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Dionysius, near Paris, where, falling sick, he dreamedthat he was restored to health by an apparition of St. Prayer, divine contemplation, and manual labor, employedhis whole time. Though such not dying withinthe exterior pale of the church cannot be commemorated in its publicsuffrages and sacrifices; yet if by desire they we se to see that no beauties and wonders of art and nature could fix his attention or raise his curiosity.

The former of these seeshad been founded by St. They are called Collatines,perhaps from the quarter of Rome in which they are situated; andOblates, because they call their profession an oblation, and use in itthe word offero, not profiteer. In the midst of action, while our hands are at work,our mind and heart ought to be interiorly employed on God, at leastvirtually, th Let us pray that by the destruction of the tyranny of sin allsouls may subject themselves to the reign of his holy love.