Gaston de Ségur: a biography, condensed from the memoir (souvenirs d'un frère) by the marquis de Ségur |
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Page iii - A BIOGRAPHY Condensed from the French Memoir BY THE MARQUIS DE SEGUR
Page 119 - addresses, said at its conclusion: " Now, darling, ask our dear Saint to beg the good God to give you your sight." " Oh mother," was the answer, " did not you hear the priest say we must wish nothing but the will of God ? I am not going to pray for my eyes, but for that.
Page 89 - had no natural shrinking from suffering, no opportunity for practising the virtue of resignation : the cross weighed heavily, gladly as he bore it, and this mingling of sorrow and joy is evident in many of his letters. " This is a grand day with me," he writes on the 2nd of September, to a young
Page 61 - his mother promised to join him in Rome for the winter with her daughters, for one of whom, Sabine, " the saint of the family," this visit was the prelude and, as it were, consecration of the offering of herself which she was about to make to God in the Convent of the Visitation.
Page 153 - will give an idea of the work done for God and for souls. In Paris and its environs, the results were, perhaps, still more striking, as they were not helped on by the powerful stimulus of imminent danger and approaching death, as on the scene of war. At Charenton, during a fortnight, the
Page 61 - and embrace you with all my heart, I wish you a good voyage without any accident, A whole year before I shall see you again, my kind friend and father ! I am for life your humble, obedient, faithful friend, ERNEST S. Early in the May of 1852, then, M. de Segur left France
Page 67 - were coming in very late—I saw in the ante-room an old priest, shabbily dressed, who had every appearance of coming to ask alms. Monseigneur was tired, and the servants thought it best not to announce his visitor till after supper ; so that the poor priest waited in silent patience for some time. After
Page 129 - in the church nearest to them. The four years which followed his sister's religious vocation were passed in the active and incessant labours entailed by all these various apostolic works, especially that of the evangelization of the faubourgs of Paris. At the end of this period Mgr. de Segur, having lost his excellent father, consecrated to
Page 61 - The four years spent by Mgr. de Segur in Rome may be considered as the second portion of his life, to be succeeded by twenty-five years of an apostolate still more extensive and vigorous than that which preceded his appointment to the functions of Auditor of the Rota. As it is to this apostolic work that
Page 155 - n'a plus sa mere—" We begin to be old men the day we lose our mother." The Marquis says that his brother's health visibly declined from the time of his mother's death: not only was the strongest tie which bound him to the earth broken, leaving a wound which never healed, but the labours which had