"The redeeming character of Franciscan enthusiasm-it's ability to change, brace and expand the most unlikely spirits and impel them to exacting discipline and selfless work-are fully shown in her."
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Evelyn Underhill in The Mystics of the Church Pub 1925. Republished James Clarke and co. Ltd. 1975.
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