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If he is dead I shall never see the seven hills again. I shall go " she paused, covering her eyes a moment. "Where?" "To the city of God," she whispered. "May all the gods protect us," said her brother. And the day after Antipater had set sail, they, too, with Cyran, the slave-girl, were moving southward in the great, middle sea. Again the council of the covenant was in session.
If I had been running in the games I should have won the laurel of Caesar." "I was wrong he could not have meant to slay me," thought Vergilius. "Not by the paws of the leopard." Cyran stood near the door, weeping. Antipater rose and led her to Vergilius. "The girl is yours," said he. "I am glad to be done with her. Come, all."
The human heart avenges itself for the tortures men pretentiously inflict upon it: the disciples of St. Cyran thought to stifle in their souls all earthly affections, and they died of grief on losing those they loved. "Their life ebbed away in those depths of tears," as M. Vinet has said. The great Port-Royal was dead with M. de Saci and Mother Angelica de St.
Consider this, my beloved, if every man loved a good woman as I love you a new peace would fill the world." Then he told her of his discovery of David, the brother of Cyran, and their friendship. When Appius told his mother and his sister what Augustus had said to him, they were greatly distressed. But Arria would not believe that Vergilius had been guilty of dishonor.
"Gentlemen," said he one day, as he led back the simple priest into the midst of a throng of his courtiers, "here you see the most learned man in Europe." But the Abbot of St. Cyran would accept no yoke but God's: he remained independent, and perhaps hostile, pursuing, without troubling himself about the cardinal, the great task he had undertaken.
They had been settled in divers places,—at first, in 1637, when they were still only a few disciples gathered around St Cyran, in the immediate neighbourhood of Port Royal de Paris; and then, when driven from this after their great head’s imprisonment, for a short time at a place called Ferté Milon; and then, finally, in 1639, at Port Royal des Champs.
The instinct of command, loftiness and breadth of views, find their place with the holy priest and with the nun; the mind of M. de St. Cyran was less practical and his judgment less simple than that of the abbess, habituated as she had been from childhood to govern the lives of her nuns as their conscience.
The Gallican bishops welcomed at that time with lively satisfaction, its eloquent pleadings in favor of their cause. But, at a later period, the French clergy discovered in St. Cyran's book free-thinking concealed under dogmatic forms. "In case of heresy any Christian may become judge," said Petrus Aurelius. Who, then, should be commissioned to define heresy? So M. de St. Cyran was condemned.
The remarkable story of Angélique’s conversion by the preaching of a Capucin friar in 1608, her strange contest with her parents which followed, the strengthening impulses in different directions which her religious life received, first from the famous St Francis de Sales, and finally, and especially, from the no less remarkable Abbé de St Cyran, all belong to the history of Port Royal, and cannot be detailed here.
He was already dying when there appeared the book Frequente Communion, by M. Arnauld, youngest son and twentieth child of that illustrious family of Arnaulds in whom Jansenism seemed to be personified. The author was immediately accused at Rome, and buried himself for twenty years in retirement. M. de St. Cyran was still working, dictating Christian thoughts and points touching death.
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