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Saint Francis of Paola - Raising the Dead
Identifier
024236
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Reverend Butler - The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints, Vol. IV, 1864
A youth, nephew to the saint, being dead, his mother, the saint's own sister, applied to him for comfort, and filled his apartment with lamentations. After the mass and divine office had been said for the repose of his soul, St. Francis ordered the corpse to be carried from the church into his cell, where he ceased not to pray till, to her great astonishment, he had restored him to life and presented him to her in perfect health. The young man entered his order, and is the celebrated Nicholas Alesso who afterwards followed his uncle into France, and was famous for sanctity and many great actions.
The source of the experience
Saint Francis of PaolaConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Raising the deadSymbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
FastingSuppressions
Dietary moderationReducing desires
Reducing opportunities
Reducing threats
Squash the big I am
Suppressing obligations