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196 106 ST. ROSE sbo conld nndorstand His life to follow in His steps, in every respect. This virtue was after many years rewarded by the power of conferring miraculous beneGts and by the gift of prophecy. She joined the Third Order of St. Francis, and preached in the public places of the town. In the night she walked through the streets, singing holy hymns. Never had that generation seen or heard of so young a girl showing such earnestness and devotion, such complete abnegation of self. Acting entirely for the service of Grod, asking nothing and fearing nothing of the world, she acquired a wonderful iufluence over her fellow- citizens. Yiterbo took for a time the side of Frederick 11. in his quarrels with the Pope, but she persuaded the people to go over to the party of the Church. At the same time she got them to give up many irregularities and crimes which were common amongst them, and to be more moral and orderly. Such reforms were not universally welcome. The governor banished her and her parents. They went to Sorano, and there Rose soon converted the inhabitants. She preached and taught in other places with similar results. At Yitorchiano, in par- ticular, where the people were under the baleful influence of a sorceress, she emphasized her teaching by speakiug from a burning pile in the middle of the public piazza. The flames made a hollow ^rine round her as if she had been standing between swelling sails, swelling, however, in opposite directions and leaving her safe between them. She went from Yitorchiano, into the neigh- bouring country, labouring to convert sinners and to comfort the poor and the sick, and to heal diseases. After the death of Frederick XL, which she had foretold, she was brought back in triumph to Yiterbo. Being refused admittance to the Franciscan nunnery there, she spent her life in a hut adjoin- ing it. She died March 6, 1252, and was at once honoured and invoked as a Saint. On September 4, 1258, Pope Alexander lY. had her translated into the church of St. Damian, which very soon came to be called the church of St Bose. At the same time he com- manded that her memory should be honoured yearly on that day and on the anniversary of her death. Sucoeeding Popes approved of the veneration paid to her, and Calixtus lY., in 1457, after renemd investigation of her life and miracles, accomplished her solemii canonization. One author says she is still shown in the church in perfect preservi- tion, her face looking as if the five and a half centuries that have passed since her death had been but so many hours. The Eoman Martyrology, the Mar- tyrologies of the Camaldolese, Yallom- brosians, Cistercians and Franciscans mark her festival as September 4. The Jeronomites commemorate her on March 6 ; the Dominicans on March 7 ; the Hermits of St. Augustine on September 11. AA.SS. Butler. Mrs. Jameson. The Tablet, Oct. 13, 1900. St. Rose (i5) of Lima, Aug. 26, 30, 3rd. O.S.D., 1586-1617, Eosa di Santa Maria, or Isabel Flobss T Oliva, called by Clement IX. the "First Flower of Holiness in Western India." Patron of Lima, Callao, Peru, South America, and the Dominicans. Kepresented : (1) in a cavern or grotto, in a grey gown, holding a lily, wearing a wreath of roses, nails showing amongst the flowers; (2) with an anchor as patron of Callao, the seaport of Lima ; (3) holding up on an anchor having four points, a walled town sur- rounded by sea, in allusion to the earth- quake of 1 746 ; (4) with a cock ; Q)) grouped with four men, canonissed by Clement X. in 1671, on the same day as herself, namely, SS. Francis Borgia, Louis Bertrand, Philip Benizzi, and Gaetan. Eose was daughter of Gasparo Flores and Maria de Oliva, both of whom were of good Spanish descent but poor. Almost £rom her infancy she was remarkable for an extreme fear of doing wrong, for great courage and patience in bearing pain, and for an extraordinary love of self torture. She was hardly weaned when she surrounded herself with thorns. When she was only three years old, a heavy lid of a box fell npon