Kensington,
Easter 1908.
“Grant unto men, O God, to perceive in little things the indications, common-seeming though they be, of things both small and great.”
St. Augustine, Confessions, Bk. XI, ch. xxiii, 1.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME
The frontispiece photogravure reproduces an oil-painting preserved in the sacristy of the Santissima Annunciata in Portorio, the Church of the Pammatone Hospital in Genoa. This painting is probably a copy (perhaps not older than 1737) of the portrait which hangs in the superioress’s room in the same hospital, and which is presumably the picture referred to by documents as extant in 1512, eighteen months after Catherine’s death. The copy has been reproduced in preference to the original, because the original has been considerably and clumsily restored, whereas the copy gives us the older portrait as it existed before this restoration.
| PAGE | ||
| [Part I.—INTRODUCTION] | ||
| [Chapter I.—The Three Chief Forces of WesternCivilization] | [3-49] | |
| Introductory | [3-10] | |
| I. | The First of the Three Forces: Hellenism, the Thirstfor Richness and Harmony | [10-25] |
| II. | The Second of the Three Forces: Christianity, the Revelationof Personality and Depth | [25-39] |
| III. | The Third Force: Science, the Apprehension and Conceptionof Brute Fact and Iron Law | [39-48] |
| IV. | Summing up: Hellenism or Harmonization, Christianityor Spiritual Experience, and Science or Acceptanceof a Preliminary Mechanism, all three necessary toMan | [48, 49] |
| [Chapter II.—the Three Elements of Religion] | [50-82] | |
| Introductory | [50] | |
| I. | The Three Elements, as they successively appear in theChild, the Youth, and the Adult Man | [50-53] |
| II. | Each Element ever accompanied by some amount of theother two. Difficulty of the Transition from one Stageto the other | [53-55] |
| III. | Parallels to this Triad of Religious Elements | [55-58] |
| IV. | Distribution of the Three Elements amongst Mankindand throughout Human History | [58-65] |
| V. | Causes operative in all Religion towards minimizing orsuppressing one or other Element, or towards denyingthe need of any Multiplicity | [65-70] |
| VI. | The Special Motives operating in each Element towardsthe suppression of the other Elements | [70-77] |
| VII. | Three Final Objections to such a conception of Religion,and their Answers | [77-82] |
| [Part II.—BIOGRAPHICAL] | ||
| [Chapter III.—Catherine Fiesca Adorna’s Life, upto her Conversion; and the Chief Peculiaritiespredominant throughout her Convert Years.] | [85-127] | |
| Introductory | [85, 86] | |
| I. | Proposed Study of the Mystical-Volitional Element ina Particular, Concrete Instance: St. Catherine ofGenoa | [86-90] |
| II. | The Materials and Aids towards such a Study | [90-93] |
| III. | Peculiarities of the Genoese Climate and GeographicalPosition; of the Ligurian Character; and of the Timesinto which Catherine was born. Her Family, Fatherand Mother | [93-97] |
| IV. | Catherine’s Life, up to the Preliminaries of her Conversion:Autumn 1447 to Mid-March 1474 | [97-104] |
| V. | Her Conversion, with its immediate Preliminaries andConsequences, March 1474 | [104-109] |
| VI. | The Two Conceptions concerning the Character andRationale of her Penitential Period and of her wholeConvert Life. The Position adopted here | [109-113] |
| VII. | Catherine and the Holy Eucharist | [113-116] |
| VIII. | Catherine and Confession and Direction | [117-123] |
| IX. | Catherine and Indulgences | [123-126] |
| X. | Peculiarities concerning the Invocation of Saints andIntercessory Prayer | [126, 127] |
| [Chapter IV.—Catherine’s Life from 1473 to 1506, andits Main Changes and Growth] | [128-174] | |
| I. | First Period of Catherine’s Convert Life: Giuliano’sBankruptcy and Conversion; their Work among thePoor, March 1473 to May 1477 | [128-131] |
| II. | Catherine and Tommasa Fiesca: their Difference ofCharacter and attrait. Peculiarity of Catherine’s Penitenceand Health during this Time | [131-133] |
| III. | Change in the Temper of Catherine’s Penitence, fromMay 1474 onwards | [133-135] |
| IV. | Catherine’s Great Fasts | [135-137] |
| V. | Second, Central Period of Catherine’s Convert Life, 1477-1499:its Special Spiritual Features | [138-141] |
| VI. | Catherine and Giuliano move into the Hospital in 1479,never again to quit it. She is Matron from 1490 to1495 | [141-143] |
| VII. | Catherine and the Plague. The Outbreak of 1493 | [143-145] |
| VIII. | Catherine and Ettore Vernazza, 1493-1495 | [145-147] |
| IX. | Catherine’s Health breaks down, 1496; other Events ofthe same Year | [147-149] |
| X. | Events of 1497 | [149-154] |
| XI. | Beginning of her Third, Last Period; End of theExtraordinary Fasts; First Relations with Don Marabotto | [155-159] |
| XII. | Her Conversations with her Disciples; “Caterina Serafina.”Don Marabotto and the Possessed Maid | [159-162] |
| XIII. | Catherine’s Sympathy with Animal-and Plant-Life: herLove of the Open Air. Her Deep Self-knowledge as tothe Healthiness or Morbidness of her Psycho-physicalStates | [163-166] |
| XIV. | Catherine’s Social Joys and Sorrows, 1501-1507 | [166-174] |
| [Chapter V.—Catherine’s Last Four Years, 1506-1510.Sketch of her Character, Doctrine, andSpirit] | [175-250] | |
| I. | Catherine’s External Interests and Activities up to May1510. Occasional slight Deviations from her old Balance.Immensely close Interconnection of her wholeMental and Psycho-physical Nature. Impressions asconnected with the Five Senses | [175-181] |
| II. | More or less Maladif Experiences and Actions | [182-200] |
| III. | Catherine’s History from May to September 9, 1510 | [200-211] |
| IV. | The Last Six Days of Catherine’s Life, September 10-15 | [211-219] |
| V. | Sketch of Catherine’s Spiritual Character and Significance | [220-250] |
| [Chapter VI. Catherine’s Doctrine] | [251-294] | |
| Introductory | [251-260] | |
| I. | God as Creative Love. The Creature’s True and FalseSelf; True and False Love | [260-266] |
| I. | Sin, Purification, Illumination | [266-272] |
| III. | The Three Categories and the Two Ways | [273-280] |
| IV. | The Other Worlds | [281-294] |
| [Chapter VII.—Catherine’s Remains and Cultus; theFate of her Two Priest Friends and of herDomestics; and the remaining History ofEttore Vernazza] | [295-335] | |
| Introductory | [295, 296] | |
| I. | The Burial and the Events immediately surrounding it.September 15 to December 10, 1510 | [296-300] |
| II. | The Different Removals of the Remains, and the ChiefStages of her Official Cultus | [300-306] |
| III. | The Fate of Catherine’s Priest Friends | [307-311] |
| IV. | The Fate of Catherine’s Three Maid-servants | [311-314] |
| V. | The Two Vernazzas: their Debt to Catherine, andCatherine’s Debt to them | [314, 315] |
| VI. | Ettore Vernazza’s Life, from 1509 to 1512 | [316-321] |
| VII. | Ettore in Rome and Naples; his Second Will; hisWork in the Genoese Prisons | [321-329] |
| VIII. | Ettore again in Naples; his Death in Genoa, June 1524;Peculiarities of his Posthumous Fame | [329-335] |
| [Chapter VIII.—Battista Vernazza’s Life] | [336-367] | |
| Introductory | [336, 337] | |
| I. | Battista’s Life, from April 1497 to June 1510 | [337-339] |
| II. | Battista and her God-father, Tommaso Moro | [339-344] |
| III. | Battista’s Colloquies, November 1554 to Ascension Day1555 | [344-358] |
| IV. | Some further Letters of Battista, 1575-1581 | [358-366] |
| V. | Battista’s Death, May 1587 | [366, 367] |
| [CONCLUSION TO VOLUME I] | ||
| Wherein lies the Secret of Spiritual Persuasiveness | [367-370] | |
| [APPENDIX TO PART II] | ||
| Chronological Account and Critical Analysis ofthe Materials for the Re-constitution ofSaint Catherine’s Life and Teaching | [371-466] | |
| Introduction: The Three Laws that govern the Growth ofReligious Biography; Complexity of the Materials forCatherine’s Life | [371-376] | |
| First Division: Account and Analysis of the Documentsprevious, and immediately subsequentto, the “Vita e Dottrina” with the “Dicchiarazione,”in Seven Stages | [376-433] | |
| I. | First Stage: August 1456 to September 12, 1510, allLegal | [376-380] |
| II. | Second Stage: Five further Official and Legal Documents,1511-1526; and Four Mortuary Dates, 1524-1587 | [380, 381] |
| III. | Third Stage: Bishop Giustiniano’s Account of Catherine’sLife, Remains, and Biography, 1537 | [382-384] |
| IV. | Fourth Stage: The Two Oldest Extant Manuscripts ofthe “Vita e Dottrina” with the “Dicchiarazione.”Manuscript A (October 1547 to February 1548), andManuscript B | [384-395] |
| V. | Fifth Stage: Manuscript C (copy of a MSS. of 1550?),first appearance of the “Dialogo,” “Chapter” First | [395-410] |
| VI. | Sixth Stage: First Printed Edition of the “Vita-Dottrina-Dicchiarazione,”1551; Examination of all it possessesin addition to Manuscripts A, B, and C, apart from the“Dialogo” | [411-417] |
| VII. | Seventh Stage: The Second “Chapter” of the “Dialogo,”which appears for the first time in the Printed “Vita,”1551 | [417-424] |
| VIII. | Seventh Stage continued: Minute Analysis of one Passagefrom the Second “Chapter” | [424-427] |
| IX. | Seventh Stage concluded: Character and Authorship ofthis Second “Chapter” | [427-433] |
| Second Division: Analysis, Assignation, and Appraisementof the “Vita-Dottrina-Dicchiarazione”Corpus, in Eight Sections | [433-466] | |
| I. | The “Dicchiarazione”: the Two Stages of its Existence | [434-440] |
| II. | The Earlier “Dicchiarazione,” and its TheologicalGlosses | [440-447] |
| III. | Five Conclusions concerning the History of the “Dicchiarazione” | [447-449] |
| IV. | The “Vita”-Proper, its Divisions and Parts, and itsChief Secondary and Authentic Constituents | [449-453] |
| V. | Age and Authorship of the Literature retained | [453-457] |
| VI. | Analysis of the Conversion-Narratives | [458-462] |
| VII. | The Sayings-Passages: Three Tests for discriminatingAuthentic from Secondary Sayings | [462, 463] |
| VIII. | Conclusion: At least Six Stages in the Upbuilding of theComplete Book of 1551. The Slight Changes introducedsince then. First Claims to Authorship forCatherine | [463-466] |