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A cry so loud that he could not distinguish the words these spirits uttered. ↩

The Heaven of Saturn continued; and the ascent to the Heaven of the Fixed Stars. ↩

It is the spirit of St. Benedict that speaks. ↩

Not far from Aquinum in the Terra di Lavoro, the birthplace of Juvenal and of Thomas Aquinas, rises Monte Cassino, celebrated for its Benedictine monastery. The following description of the spot is from a letter in the London Daily News , February 26, 1866, in which the writer pleads earnestly that this monastery may escape the doom of all the Religious Orders in Italy, lately pronounced by the Italian Parliament:⁠—