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40 grew up from their earliest consciousness in sanctifying grace and interior perfection. The second are the penitent, as S. Paul, who had persecuted the name of Jesus; S. Augustine, who had wandered early from the divine law; S. Thomas of Canterbury, who had been immersed in the world without falling from God, and yet with many imperfections. The antecedents of these two kinds are widely unlike, but