Excerpt from The Anima Divota: Or Devout Soul His memory as spiritual director will long be cherished among the clergy of that diocese. Here he wrote his first book, The Anima Divota, which was followed by La Scuola della Christiana Persezione. He also laboured as a valuable contributor to the Theologia Moralis, published by Monsignor Scavini, a work now widely known in Catholic Seminaries. St. Teresa says that sickness is the test whereby God usually purifies and perfects those whom He intends to raise to a high degree of holiness. Fr. Pagani's life was to be in many ways subjected to this painful trial. At this time he was attacked by a violent inflammation in the throat, which long baffled all medical treatment. To this followed a low intermittent fever which wasted his strength for eighteen months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.