Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-ebruary 15

IT appeared a calamity to King Manasses to be deprived of his kingdom, and to be made a slave of the prince of the Assyrians. But these misfortunes were blessings, for after his downfall he returned to God, and did pen­ance for the wickedness of his life.
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927