"DEFICIENT PUERI ET LABORABUNT, ET JUVENES IN INFIRMITATE CADENT; BOSTON: PATRICK DONAHOE, 25 FRANKLIN STREET. 1853. I present for your Lordship's kind acceptance and patronage the first work which I publish as a Father of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. I have a sort of claim upon your permission to do so, as a token of my gratitude and affection toward your Lordship, since it is to you principally that I owe it, under God, that I am a client and subject, however unworthy, of so great a Saint. When I found myself a Catholic, I also found myself in your Lordship's district; and, at your suggestion, I first moved into your immediate neighbourhood, and then, when your Lordship further desired it, I left you for Rome. |