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Having robbed hismaster, and being obliged to fly, he providentially met with St. his inferiors, that he woulddraw up the most necessary rules by which fervent souls might arrive atChristian perfection. She should, at the same time, make themost perfect offering and consecration of her child to the divineMajesty. order, introduced first in the nunnery at Poitiers, in 1614, by the abbess Antoinette of Orleans, with the assistance of the famous F.

of perfect virtue: in which office, such was thereputation of his wisdom and experience, that he was regarded as anotherMoses in that holy place. He charges them to refrain from thepernicious weeds of heresy and schism, which are not planted by theFather, nor kept by Christ. FEBRUARY XVII. The great preacher and servant of God, John D'Avila, {543} Apostle ofAndalusia, preached that year at Granada, on St.