I praise and glorify your great patience which bore with me even from my ... childhood, adolescence, and early womanhood, until I was nearly twenty-six, I was always so blindly irresponsible. Looking back I see that but for your protecting hand I would have been quite without conscience in thought, word or deed. But you came to my aid... and provided me with necessary correction from those among whom I lived.
(Thirteenth century prayer of Saint Gertrude, quoted in The Virgin of Bennington, p. 249)
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