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dear Romelli sisters; give them my warm wishes and tell them
that I am waiting almost impatiently for a letter from them.
There is another thing I should like to do together with
you, which I hope will do us much good. But before I share it
with anyone, I wish to receive a letter from the Romellis.
I cannot fulfil your desire here and now with regard to
what I told you: Our Lord does not want it. Meanwhile, please
pray, and I will do as you wish some other time; practise self-
denial. I am sending you the Crucifix blessed (with a plenary
indulgence) at the point of death and the beads: if you recite
the Rosary every day, you can receive a plenary indulgence
once a month with the understanding that you go to
Confession and receive Holy Communion any day you wish.
You can thus gain very many partial indulgences with every
prayer.
Since you want to know, the cost of the Corporal cloth
and ‘Animetta’: they amount to 17 pence in all. I shall put off
for another time my congratulations for the new Sodality of Our
Lady of Sorrows.
Lovere, 9 January 1826.
Your loving Sister
BORTOLAMEA CAPITANIO
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