CONTENTS.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Liguori, Alfonso Maria de', Saint
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Preface to American edition
Protest of the author
Petition of the author to Jesus and Mary
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To the reader
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Introduction
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Prayer to the blessed Virgin to obtain a good death
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CHAPTER I.
Section 1.—Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy!—Of the great confidence we should have in Mary, because she is the Queen of Mercy
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Sect. 2.—How much greater should be our confidence in Mary, because she is our mother
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Sect. 3.—How great is the love of our mother for us
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Sect. 4.—Mary is also mother of penitent sinners
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CHAPTER II.
Sect. 1.—Our life, our sweetness!—Mary is our life, because she obtains for us the pardon of our sins
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Sect. 2.—Mary is again our life, because she obtains for us perseverance
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Sect. 3.—Mary renders death sweet to her servants
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CHAPTER III.
Sect. 1.—Hail, our hope!—Mary is the hope of all
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Sect. 2.—Mary, the hope of sinners
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CHAPTER IV.
Sect. 1.—To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve!—How ready is Mary to succor those who call upon her
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Sect. 2.—How powerful is Mary to protect those who invoke her in temptations of the devil
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CHAPTER V.