The Perfection of Life, for Sisters
A letter of spiritual direction to a Poor Clare in eight chapters: self-knowledge, humility, poverty, silence, prayer, the memory of the Passion, charity and final perseverance. The English is Laurence Costello’s 1923 translation (Holiness of Life), which follows the chapters. The English is Laurence Costello’s 1923 translation (Holiness of Life), which follows the chapters. The Latin is the Quaracchi text of the Decem opuscula (1900), from an OCR scan, without the editors’ critical notes.
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Source: Archive.org OCR of the octavo edition. Page heads, the editors’ footnotes (variant readings and cross-references) and note markers are removed; line-end hyphens are joined; recognisable OCR slips are corrected by comparison with the other Quaracchi scans, so some remain. · The translation only (prologue and eight chapters); the foreword, introduction and index are left out. Paragraph breaks are rebuilt from the short last lines of the OCR, so some are missing or misplaced, and a few stray page heads and note fragments may remain. · The translation only (prologue and eight chapters); the foreword, introduction and index are left out. Paragraph breaks are rebuilt from the short last lines of the OCR, so some are missing or misplaced, and a few stray page heads and note fragments may remain.