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He knew he must call for help, but several minutes elapsed before he could remember the proper Italian word. Then he cried: "Soccorso, soccorso!" But only the echo responded from the lonely shore. He again reached the bank, formed by a dyke which protects the lowlands from the floods. He climbed to the top, carrying the little tender in his arms.
In the same year she formed the design of founding a home, which should not be a monastery, where prostitutes who wished to abandon their mode of life could find a refuge with their children, if they had any. This seems to have led to the establishment of a Casa del Soccorso. In 1591 she died of fever, reconciled with God and blessed by many unfortunates.
"Formerly Parish Priest of the B.V. del Soccorso, now Prebenday and Priest of the Cathedral of Triest." I am further able to state that the gross travesty of Lady Burton's grief "her weeping and wailing on the floor," etc., etc. is the outcome of a malevolent imagination, from which nothing is sacred, not even a widow's tears.
Guicciardini, writing his Ricordi during the first months of the siege, remarks upon the power of faith (Op. Ined. vol. i. p. 83. Compare p. 134): 'Esemplo a' dì nostri ne è grandissimo questa ostinazione de' Fiorentini, che essendosi contro a ogni ragione del mondo messi a aspettare la guerra del papa e imperadore, senza speranza di alcuno soccorso di altri, disuniti e con mille difficult
Our Lady of good Counsel. S.M. "del Soccorso." Our Lady of Succour. Our Lady of the Forsaken. S.M. "del buon Core." Our Lady of good Heart. S.M. "della Grazia." Our Lady of Grace. S.M. "di Misericordia." Our Lady of Mercy. S.M. "Auxilium Afflictorum." Help of the Afflicted. S.M. "Refugium Peccatorum." Refuge of Sinners. S.M. "del Pianto," "del Dolore." Our Lady of Lamentation, or Sorrow.
Volto ritrorso; scilicet, versus ortum suum, vel contra: el mar fugire; idest, et Mare Rubrum fugere hinc inde, quando fecit viam populo Dei, qui transivit sicco pede: fu qui mirabile a vedere; idest, miraculosius, chel soccorso que, idest, quam esset mirabile succursum divinum hic venturum ad puniendos perversos."
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