the very year St. Paul of the Cross had experienced his conversion...
a daughter was born to the Costantini family of Corneto [nTarquinia]. She was baptized Faustina. When she was fourteen, she too felt the call to a life of prayer and penance. But she had to help her father raise the family, after the early death of her mother.
Later, when she wanted to enter an austere convent, her father told her that the only convent she could enter was the Benedictine convent of St. Lucy in Corneto. This she did, even though she felt the Lord really wanted her in a stricter monastery...
Sister Candida made profession of her vows...
on November 22, 1734 - the 14th anniversary of Paul's reception of the Passionist habit.
As she handed the signed document of her vows to the Mother Prioress, she whispered to Jesus: "In virtue of your most holy Passion, accept me as a victim of your holy love." She prayed to Jesus to share in his Passion.
She often repeated to him: "You are a spouse of blood. I want to be your true follower." When tempted with fierce temptations, she heard the invitation 'to enter into the Sacred Heart', with the moving words of the Song of Songs: "Come, my love, hidden in the cleft of the rock"...
~bron~
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