Autobiography Of St. Anthony Mary Claret

The Autobiography Of St. Anthony Mary Claret
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Written reluctantly and only under obedience to his religious superiors, The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret bares the heart and soul of a saint. For here St. Anthony Mary not only details the apostolic techniques which proved so successful in saving souls but also explains the five things necessary for a fruitful ministry, namely, humility, poverty, meekness, modesty, and mortification. Our Lord several times told him, Da mihi sanguinem et dabo tibi spirinem," ("Give me blood [mortification] and I will give you spirit.") During his mission work, he accepted no money and walked everywhere, even from town to town. He had but one pair of shoes, one set of clothes and a few books. He would preach only where his bishop sent him, realizing that God touches hearts when a missionary works out of holy obedience, rather than from personal inclination. He neither ate meat nor drank wine, and slept only three to five hours per night.

As archbishop of Santiago, Cuba, he visited every parish in his diocese four times (some of these had not seen a bishop in 60 years), and conducted missions in each one, plus confirmed those who had not been (300,000) and rectified the invalid marriages (9,000) - all in the course of six years and two months. As confessor to the Queen of Spain, he desired, when finally leaving her service, to have nothing from her - "not even a pin." "All my yearning," he said, "consists in doing mission work."

He resolved never to waste a moment of time, and during his 35 years a priest he wrote 144 books and preached some 25,000 sermons. On one trip, besides traveling, he wrote, 205 sermons in 48 days - 12 in one day. Giving the reason he worked so zealously, he wrote, "If you were to see a blind man about to fall into a pit or over a precipice, would you not warn him? Behold, I do the same, and do it I must, for this is my duty. I must warn sinners and make them see the precipice which leads to the unquenchable fires of Hell, for they will surely go there if they do not amend their ways. Woe to me if I do not preach and warn them, for I would be held responsible for their condemnation."

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