Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-April 6

As other martyrs are represented with the instruments of their sufferings - a St Paul with a sword, a St Andrew with a cross, a St Laurence with a gridiron - Mary is repre­sented with her dead Son in her arms; for Jesus himself, and he alone, was the instru­ment of her martyrdom, by reason of the love she bore him.
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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