The Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary Author:Evelyn Underhill Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HERE WE TELL OF A BISHOP THAT SAID MASS IN HIS CHURCH BEFORE SAINT MARY AND HER MEINIE: TO WHOM THE SAID LADY DID GIVE A NOBLE VESTMENT IN the days when Pepi... more »n ruled in France, the The blessed Saint Bon was bishop of Clermont Heavenly in Auvergne ; the same being a just, a simple, and an holy man. He ruled his diocese with charity, he was constant in all good works, and though he had exceeding great compassion on the faults of others, yet did his own sins always move him to a most lively contrition : and beyond all these virtues, that were so proper to his state, he had a very loving devotion to our holy Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. And because he was a man of good and simple heart, that wearied not in love nor in well-doing, being filled with that charity that will not have reward—for these things, the place of his pil- grimage shone with a peculiar glory in the eyes of the angels, being made radiant with some- thing of that light which is in Heaven. There they moved as in their home, standing there, no less than in the Empyrean, before the very countenance of God : for truly Paradise is not a The place, unless it be that place where love may dwell. Heavenly Yet, because he ever walked with eyes down- Vesture castj desiring in n;s humility a greater perfection, Saint Bon discerned not the marvels that lay about him. Rather did he bewail the sins and shortcomings that withheld him, as he believed, from the perfect performance of his heavenly devoir, and so from the blessedness of those called to be saints. And for this cause he spent long hours in prayer and supplication, in that his life did, as he thought, so little honour to that Queen of Queens whom he would serve. Now it happened thus, that on the vigil of the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, Saint Bon st...« less