Letter IV. To the Same

Change of name for the sisters: St. Frances of Rome their patroness and model.

gth March 1611.

YES, my dear daughter, yes, we will yield and change the name of Oblate Sisters, since it displeases those gentlemen so much; but never will we change the eternal design and vow of being for ever the most humble servants of the Mother of God. Renew the promise of it in your Communion; I will do the same in the Sacrifice of the Mass. Ah! it is twelve years to-day since I had the grace of celebrating Mass in the monastery of this holy Roman widow, with a thousand desires of being devout to her all my life. As she is our holy patroness, she must be our model. IV. G

She loved her little Batiste as well as you love your Celse Benigne; but she left to God the entire disposal of him, to do with him as he willed, and he made of him a child of salvation: so do I hope for the most dear son of my most dear mother.