Excerpt from The Life of Marie Lataste: Lay-Sister of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart; With a Brief Notice of Her Sister Quitterie
Marie Lataste, the subject of this biography, appears to be comparatively little known in England, although her Life and Writings, published fifteen years ago in France, have excited a lively interest among Catholics in the land of her birth, and have, we are assured on all hands, produced abundant fruits of edification in that country. They have already gone through four editions, a practical proof of the estimation in which they are held. Nor can this be matter of surprise; for that an uneducated peasant girl, engaged in field occupations from her very in fancy in an obscure hamlet, situated in a most isolated district, should, while so employed, pen a work on theological subjects which would have reflected credit on the most devout and learned ecclesiastic, is in itself a marvel; and the explanation of that marvel which will be found in her Life and Letters only introduces a prodigy of another and a higher order. For there we learn that in all she wrote she was simply retailing knowledge which she had supernaturally received.
It would be almost impossible to possess stronger guarantees of authenticity than can be alleged in the case of Marie Lataste"s Works and Letters.
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