"In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief."

Source : Angela (of Foligno) (1909). “The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”

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