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Excerpt from The Living Flame of Love
It is now many years ago, long before the episcopal burthen pressed upon his shoulders, that the author enjoyed the pleasure of knowing, and frequently conversing with, the estimable Gorres at Munich. One day the conversation turned on a remark in that deep writer's Philosophy of Mysticism, to the effect that saints most re markable for their mystical learning and piety were far from exhibiting, in their features and expression, the characteristics usually attributed to them. They are popularly considered, and by artists represented, as soft, fainting, and perhaps hysterical persons; whereas their portraits present to us countenances of men, or women, of a practical, business-like, working character.
The author asked Gorres if he had ever seen an original likeness of St. Teresa, in whom he had thought these remarks were particularly exemplified.
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