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| | Cardinal Manning: Part III. Strachey, Lytton. 1918. Eminent Victorians |
 | | We saw the liquid blood of an Oratorian Father, a good man, but not a saint, who died two centuries ago, I think; and we saw the liquid blood of Da Ponte, the great and Holy Jesuit, who, I suppose, was almost a saint. |
 | | Cuthbert was described by his biographer as having carried the jealousy of women, characteristic of all the saints, to an extraordinary pitch. An example was given: whenever he held a spiritual conversation with St. Ebba, he was careful to spend the ensuing hours of darkness in prayer, up to his neck in water. |
 | | Saints who lighted fires with icicles, changed bandits into wolves, and floated across the Irish Channel on altar-stones, produced a disturbing effect on his historical conscience. |
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