Great Throughts Treasury
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Saint Gertrude, aka Saint Gertrude of Nivelles NULL
French Abbess of the Benedictine Monastery of Nivelles in present-day Belgium, Patron Saint of the fear of mice (suriphobia)
"It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished that they can do no harm."
"I praise, adore, bless and thank you to the best of my ability for your wise mercy and your merciful wisdom! For you, my Creator and my Redeemer, have sought to curb my stiff-necked obstinacy under your sweet yoke with the remedy best suited to my infirmity."
"Lord, you have granted me your secret friendship by opening the sacred ark of your divinity, your deified heart, to me in so many ways as to be the source of all my happiness; sometimes imparting it freely, sometimes as a special mark of our mutual friendship. You have so often melted my soul with your loving caresses that, if I did not know the abyss of your overflowing condescensions, I should be amazed were I told that even your Blessed Mother had been chosen to receive such extraordinary marks of tenderness and affection."