Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Law and Disorder

The photo of the nun crowning the statue led me to that website where I discovered a lawyer who may have faced what might be on Bridget's mind, renouncing 'success' - seemingly ILLOGICAL to Tim and the secular world: "On 8 November 1732, having said farewell to his parents and his friends, St Alphonsus, the famous lawyer and descendant of the Neapolitan nobility, left the grand city of Naples for the poor and humble village of Scala, clad in a threadbare cassock and seated on a lowly donkey. Yielding to the call of divine grace, he was leaving behind him fortune and honour, friends and relations, his companions and his spiritual children – leaving everything to give himself to God and the most abandoned souls."

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