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LIFE OF SAINT GERARD MAJELLA

in the Gospel:
“Come and see the man who has told me everything that I have
done.”
Full of surprise, the Archbishop sought Gerard out, and had
several long conversations with him. On his departure he earnestly
recommended himself to the holy Brother's prayers.
“O my Lord!” replied the Servant of God, “I have need of all the
Divine Mercy to save my own soul. I beg of your Grace not to forget
me at the Altar.”
The Archbishop never lost the impression made upon him during
that stay at Caposele.
On their return to the Archiepiscopal Residence, the change in the
secretary was the common talk of the place. All his former gaiety
seemed to have suddenly disappeared. One day the Superior of the
seminary asked him whatever could have happened to him during his
absence.
Then he too was told the wonderful story. The poor secretary
made no secret of the fact that he could never again be lighthearted
as of old until he had made reparation to his injured wife. As soon as
the necessary arrangements could be made, he left for Rome to rejoin
the woman whom he had treated so badly, and who thus recovered
both her happiness and her husband through the instrumentality of
Saint Gerard.
Even in Rome the story was spread far and wide, and at last a
Cardinal wrote to ask that the wonderful Brother should be sent to
the Eternal City. But when this letter reached Caposele, alas! Gerard
was already dead.

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