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 read easily but without it being able to spell her words, when she was asked to do so; she scarcely knew her letters ! Catherine at once procured the "Office books," and read all the Psalms and whatever enters into the composition of the canonical hours. She was particularly fond of the verse and its response. Deus in adjuiorium meum intende, etc. She translated it and continually repeated it, She soon made such progress in contemplation, that she gradually omitted her vocal prayers, and her ecstasies became so frequent, that she could scarcely recite the Lord's Prayer without being ravished out of her exterior senses, by a heavenly favor which we will relate hereafter.