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Letter 139

TO DON ANGELO BOSIO
She hands in rules drawn up for the Pious Union, with other scripts - She
asks permission to make the vow of charity - Sentiments of true humility -
and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

HAIL TO JESUS AND HIS MOST HOLY CROSS

Very Reverend Father Confessor,

Before you leave permit me to send you a heap of my
usual papers. I don’t expect you, nor even wish you, to see
them at once; I am sending them to you now because it is a
thousand times better that they be in your hands than in mine.
Look through them as is most convenient for you and then send
them back to me when God inspires you to do so.
Among these papers you will find the manual of the new
rules meant for our Pious Union. Mother Mistress (Parpani)
and Lucia Cismondi have kindly taught me the heart and
substance of whatever I wrote, and I feel that they have had a
special inspiration in thinking it out. In their humility they
declined to write down anything, though I had earnestly
begged them to do so. Mother Mistress, especially, refused to
put in even a word in it. As an instrument of their humility and
to the incitement of my own pride, I wrote out what they have

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