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INSTR. i.] The Celebration of Mass. 229
Cardinal in Rome, a particular friend, who was ac
customed to say Mass every day, had begun to omit it
on account of his occupations. The saint resolved to
go, and actually went to Rome, in the burning heat of
summer, at the risk of his life, in order to persuade his
friend to resume his former custom.
The Venerable John d Avila, as we read in his life,
going one day to say Mass in a hermitage, felt himsen
so feeble that he began to despair of being able to reach
the place, which was at a distance, and intended to omit
Mass; but Jesus Christ appeared to him in the form of 3
pilgrim, uncovered his breast, showed him his wounds,
and particularly the wound in his side, and said to hinr.
"When I was wounded, I felt more fatigued and feeble
than you are." He then disappeared: Father d Avila
took courage, went to the oratory, and celebrated Mass
peccatores venia, justos subsidio, in purgatorio existentes refrigerio
Ecclesiam beneficio, et seipsum medicina." Dt Pr<zp.
ad M. c. 5.