516 DEVOTION TO THE HEART OF JESUS. 



fanctity was fpread throughout all France. Even the 

 renowned defender of the bull Unigenitus, John Jo- 

 feph Languet, afterwards archbifhop of Sens, who 

 even vouchfafed to favour the celebrated Boffuet with his 

 efceem, was an ardent admirer of this holy fanatic, and 

 publifhed a very circumftantial account of her life in 

 quarto in the year 1729. a printed tranllation whereof 

 into Italian made its appearance at Venice and Rome. 

 It is furprifing how any fenfible man could put together 

 and write down fuch a parcel of filly, ridiculous fluff, 

 even for his contemporaries, I will not fay for pofterity. 

 But he was a great ftickler for the j emits, who made 

 ufe of the pious mummeries of this nun for ferving 

 their own purpofes. In a virion, the fon of God de- 

 manded her heart. She offered it to him : he took it 

 vifibly out of her breaft, inclofed it in his own, and 

 then gave it her back as a pledge of his love, with 

 thefe words : Henceforth fhalt thou be the beloved of 

 my heart. In another virion, Chrift fhewed her the 

 fouls in purgatory ; among whom fhe faw fome who 

 had no other token of predeftination upon them, than 

 that in all their lives they had never hated God. With 

 fuch farces, wherein the jefuits - often peep from be- 

 hind the fcenes, the book of the virions of this nun is 



The jefuits made choice of this excellent inftrument 

 for tending the glorious fcions which father La Colom- 

 biere, for the falvation of the world, had brought with 

 hijtn out of England. In the year 1674. Hie mounted 

 the ftaee with this facred farce. Her divine bride- 



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groom appeared to her, fhewed her his fond affec- 

 tionate heart, and told her, that he was determined, 



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