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God and the Blessed Virgin were too far from him: God was too great and stern and the Blessed Virgin too pure and holy.
I pray to God through the merits of His zealous servant Francis Xavier, that such a soul may be led to sincere repentance and that the holy communion on saint Francis's day of this year may be a lasting covenant between God and that soul.
If ever he was impelled to cast sin from him and to repent the impulse that moved him was the wish to be her knight.
He moaned to himself like some baffled prowling beast.
