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ith reference  to  what  is  meant  by  devotion, with  many  there  is  a  delusion to which  Father  Segneri,  in  his  treatise  on devotion  to  the  ever  blessed  Mother  of  God, alludes. Persons are  supposed  to  be  devoted to Our  Lord,  to  the  Blessed  Virgin  —  taking these for  examples  —  who  are  known  to  say prayers in  their  honor,  go  to  holy  communion on their  great  feasts,  etc.  Now  Segneri  says, with truth,  that  prayers,  communions,  pilgrimages, and  such  works  may  be  helps  to devotion,  or  the  consequences  of  devotion, but they  are  not  devotion  in  its  real  and  true meaning. Devotion is  something  personal. Devotion to  a  person  supposes  great  esteem, if not  love,  of  that  person  —  a  sensitive  feeling as  to  hurting  or  displeasing,  a  desire  to gratify  and  please,  a  wish  to  be  one  as  much as possible  with  such  a  person. Hence JohnI  son,  in  his  Dictionary,"  defines  devotion  to  a person:  Strong  attachment  and  ardent love,  such  as  makes  the  lover  the  sole  property of  the  person  loved"  —  one,  as  it  were, vowed away  and  consecrated  to  another. Now it  is  quite  possible  that  some  Cath-