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 excited their boasting. Catherine's disciples were also contradicted by this change, but she appeared quite gay. and happy at the event, and thanked her divine Spouse who had delivered her from the attentions of men.

In the former miracle, our Lord showed how very agreeable Catherine was in his sight, and in the latter, how profoundly submissive she was towards Him; in the former appeared the grace which adorns her; in the latter her wisdom; for where humility dwells there also is wisdom found: for this reason, St. Gregory, in his first book of Dialogues, esteems wisdom above prodigies and miracles. It is clear that the virtue of humility, without which there is no prudence, was the cause of the second miracle, and rendered it more admirable than the first; but the carnal heart cannot comprehend these things, and it is not astonishing, because the prudence of the flesh is not and can never be submissive to God. (Rom. viii. 7)