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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on Hbrary shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. 

The volume which is here presented to the reader is 

printed from a manuscript in the possession of the 

Teresian Community at Lanheme in Cornwall. That 

Community is the same with that to which Catharine 

Burton, known in religion as Mary Xaveria of the Angels, 

herself belonged. It came,' as it were, by direct descent 

from St. Teresa herself, inasmuch as its first Prioress was 

Mother Anne of the Ascension, an English lady of the 

Worsley family, who had been trained in the Spanish 

Teresian Convent at Brussels, under the famous Anne 

of Sl Bartholomew, St. Teresa's constant companion, in 

whose arms the Saint expired. After flourishing for 

several generations as the home of a succession of 

holy English ladles who left their country in order to 

dedicate themselves to our Lord in the Order founded 

by St. Teresa, the Community left Antwerp, on account 

of the troubles occasioned by the Revolution, in 1794, 

and finally settled in their present abode at Lanheme, 

a spot where it is believed the Holy Sacrifice has 

been offered and the Blessed Sacrament reserved un- 

interruptedly through all the centuries of persecution 

since the change of religion in England. 

The manuscript in question was compiled by Father 

Thomas Hunter, as is clear from internal evidence, 

at the request of the Community, within a few years 

of the death of the holy nun whose life it relates. 

Father Hunter was of about the same age with