Nixon-Roulet, Mary F · Boston : Marlier & Co. · leaf 246
nightingale offlowers. At last the tyrant ordered her to be putto the most cruel of deaths. A wheel wasmade to revolve in different directions, sothat when bound upon it her tender bodywould be torn limb from limb; but thesaint prayed to God, and He sent angelswho broke the wheel and smote her… … A Saintly Scholar of San Severino, says: ^ As to what issaid that the body of this saint was con-veyed to Mount Sinai, the meaning is thatit was carried by the monks of Sinai, thatthey might devoutly enrich their dwellingwith such a treasure. It is well knownthat the name of an angelical habit ^was…
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