About the book: Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law. - Ps XCIII 12.
In the life of Sister Benigna Consolata Ferrero, the saintly Visitandine of Como, Italy, we have a model of pure, beautiful childhood, maidenhood, and later, of extraordinary sanctity in the religious life.
At every page of this wonderful story also entitled "The Delicacies and Tenderness of the Love of Jesus for a Little Soul," we are awed into silence, transported, as it were, into a celestial atmosphere, where, like Mary, we are at the feet of Jesus listening to His Gospel of sanctity.
These pages present to us the amazing spectacle, in our own degenerate days, of a maiden who at twelve years, could immolate herself as a victim of love to God, ready to suffer all privations, all tortures of mind and body, yea, to be the sport of the powers of hell, even, if she might but console the Heart of the Redeemer of the world by helping to win it back to Him - this world gone so far astray.
This Life tells us that we have saints with us always and that Jesus was the beginning and the end of all her actions.
The Delicacies and Tenderness of the Love of Jesus for a Little Soul (1918) is a brief sketch of the life and virtues of Sister Benigna Consolata Ferrero (1885-1916), a professed choir nun of The Order of The Visitation, BVM, Como, Italy, whose interior life with Jesus on earth was so secret, so hidden, so guarded even from the dear Sisters who were her daily companions, that only after her blessed death was the stupendous revelation made known to them by the Mother Superior who had so ably guided her and by the Ecclesiastical Superiors whose direction had ever been marked by supernatural light and prudence.
Hence, it is not surprising that she was His "Little Secretary, the Apostle of His Mercy".
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