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Fifteenth point. How he carried the blessed sacrament to the sick during the chablais mission

Her answer on the fifteenth point was :

I have been assured by credible eye-witnesses that our Blessed Founder in the first year of the mission went to get the Blessed Sacrament from Allinges, and in the subsequent years from a little chapel which had been given to Catholics, in order to carry it in secret to the sick. He carried it in his bosom, wrapped up in a corporal.

72 Saint Sane $. tie CJHjantal'* Imposition*

Once, when speaking to me of these occasions, our Blessed Founder said : / held the Divine Saviour of our souls in my bosom, close to my heart; making me understand that from so doing he received unspeakable sweetness and consolation. He told me also that he had explained to the Catholics that whenever they saw him passing by with a demeanour of unusual gravity and without saluting any one whom he met, they were to follow him, as this was a sign that he was bearing the Master of the Universe, Whom he was com pelled to carry thus secretly for fear of losing his life. And this is true, &c.

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