Saint Douceline (Classic Reprint)

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I never heard of Saint Douceline till a short time ago, and perhaps some of you shared my ignorance. I am not going to assert that she was a very import ant saint, but she was a quite genuine one, and had some significance in Franciscan history. Pilgrim ages were made to her tomb, and miracles wrought there her relics were treasured an office was sung in her honour; and her legend was written soon after her death. But the community she formed took a name that grew suspect in the eyes of the Church, and this may account for the lapsing of the once strenuous efi'orts to secure her regular canonisation. Nevertheless, her cult lasted for well nigh three hundred years in Marseilles.

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