The Life of St. Frances of Rome
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
CHAPTER I. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE SAINT'S
LIFE—HER CHILDHOOD AND EARLY PIETY.
CHAPTER II. FRANCESCA'S EARLY INCLINATION FOR THE
CLOISTER—BY HER FATHER'S DESIRE SHE MARRIES LORENZO PONZIANO—HER
MARRIED LIFE—HER ILLNESS AND MIRACULOUS CURE.
CHAPTER III. FRANCESCA PROCEEDS IN HER
MORTIFICATIONS AND WORKS OF CHARITY—HER SUPERNATURAL TEMPTATIONS AND
CONSOLATIONS.
CHAPTER IV. THE BIRTH OF FRANCESCA'S FIRST
CHILD—HER CARE IN HIS EDUCATION—SHE UNDERTAKES THE MANAGEMENT OF HER
FATHER-IN-LAW'S HOUSEHOLD—A FAMINE AND PESTILENCE IN ROME—FRANCESCA'S
LABOURS FOB THE SICK AND POOR—THE MIRACLES WROUGHT IN HER BEHALF.
CHAPTER V. THE BIRTH OF FRANCESCA'S SECOND SON—HIS
SUPERNATURAL GIFTS—THE BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER—SATANIC ATTACKS UPON
FRANCESCA—-TROUBLES OF ROME—FRANCESCA'S HUSBAND IS SEVERELY
WOUNDED—HER ELDEST SON, WHEN GIVEN UP AS A HOSTAGE TO THE NEAPOLlTANS,
IS MIRACULOUSLY RESTORED TO HER.
CHAPTER VI. SUFFERINGS OF ROME FROM THE TROOPS OF
LADISLAS—DEATH OF FRANCESCA'S SON EVANGELISTA—THE FAMINE AND PLAGUE
IN ROME—FRANCESCA'S LABOURS FOR THE STARVlNG AND SICK—HER MIRACLES.
CHAPTER VIII. FRANCESCA'S ILLNESS AND RECOVERY—HER
VISION OF HELL—RESTORATION OF TRANQUILLITY III ROME—RETURN OF
FRANCESCA'S HUSBAND—HER POWER IN CONVERTING SINNERS.
CHAPTER IX. FRESH SUPERNATURAL EVENTS IN
FRANCESCA'S HISTORY—HER OBEDIENCE TO HER HUSBAND AND TO HER CONFESSOR
REWARDED BY TWO MIRACLES—MARRIAGE OF HER SON, AND ILL CONDUCT OF HIS
WIFE—HER CONVERSION THROUGH FRANCESCA'S PRAYERS—FRESH MIRACLES WORKED
BY FRANCESCA.
CHAPTER X. FRANCESCA LAYS THE FOUNDATION OF HER
FUTURE CONGREGATION—HER PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI.
CHAPTER XI. DEATH OF FRANCESCA'S FRIEND AND
DIRECTOR, DON ANTONIO—TROUBLES IN ROME AND ITALY FORETOLD BY
FRANCESCA—DEATH OF VANNOZZA, FRANCESCA'S SISTER IN LAW—FOUNDATION OF
THE CONGREGATION OF OBLATES OF TOR DI SPECCHI.
CHAPTER XII. PROGRESS AND TRIALS OF THE YOUNG
COMMUNITY—IT IS CONFIRMED BY THE POPE—TROUBLES IN ROME AND THE CHURCH
TERMINATED THROUGH FRANCESCA'S INTERCESSION AND THE COUNCIL OF
FLORENCE.
CHAPTER XIII. DEATH OF FRANCESCA'S HUSBAND—SHE
GOES TO RESIDE WITH THE COMMUNITY OF TOR DI SPECCC—HER LIFE AS
SUPERIORESS.
CHAPTER XIV. FRANCESCA'S LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH.
CHAPTER XV. FRANCESCA'S FUNERAL, AND HER
SUBSEQUENT CANONIZATION.
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