FREE The Rosary Magazine Sent FREE for one year to everyone who secures 3 NEW SUBSCRIBERS 3 Send us six dollars--$6.00--and the THE ROSARY PRESS SOMERSET, OHIO VOL. XXVI MARCH, 1905 No. 3 The Saintly Triumvirate of March By CAROLA MILANIS GI T seems presumptuous for one not of the sacred band to at tempt to eulogize a saint. We are familiar with the so-called lives of the saints, no doubt, and have marveled, in a despairing mood, at the wonderful achieve ments of these giant souls, but which of us knows, after all his reading and studying, even the mere alphabet of saintliness? A saint? Would you recognize a saint, think you, were you to meet one? The very meekness and humility which make him a saint hide from us his spiritual greatness. A saint! What broad fields the mind must traverse, what depths the understanding must sound, what heights the intellect must climb, what fervor must burn within the heart, before one can grasp even the smallest fraction of the meaning of that superlatively significant name! Because a saint is not only the result of the eternal Father's creative act; he is the most precious purchase of the eternal Son's redeeming love, the most noble work of the eternal Spirit's sanctifying grace. A saint is a masterpiece of the divine Artist, a heroic poem by the divine Author, a magnificent chord of music played by the divine Master. ST. JOSEPH-DEGER. |