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   Excerpt from "On the Seven Spiritual Weapons"   
      
    Sometimes the devil inspires souls with an inordinate zeal for a   
   certain virtue or some special pious exercise, so that they will be   
   motivated by their passion to practice it more and more. This   
   temptation is more to pride rather than virtue....Sometimes, on the   
   other hand, the devil coaches souls to do less than they can really   
   do. This temptation is more to false humility...In both cases, the   
   devil's goal is to make the soul discouraged when the virtue is found   
   to be unattainable; and to be wearied and disgusted if his efforts are   
   below his abilities. The soul ends up neglecting everything. It is as   
   necessary to overcome the one snare as the other.   
   -- Saint Catherine of Bologna, from “On the Seven Spiritual Weapons “   
      
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   August 31st – St. Paulinus, Bishop of Trier   
      
   This Paulinus, called by St. Athanasius "a truly apostolic man ", and   
   referred to by St. Jerome as " happy in his sufferings " for the   
   faith, was educated in the cathedral-school of Poitiers and was a   
   disciple of St. Maximinus whom he succeeded in the see of Trier.   
   During the exile of St. Athanasius at Trier Paulinus had become one of   
   his most fervent supporters, and at the arianizing synod of Aries in   
   353 he stood out boldly for the faith of Nicaea and opposed the papal   
   legates who were prepared to condemn Athanasius. In the same cause he   
   withstood the intimidation and violence of the Emperor Constantius,   
   and was banished from his see with St. Dionysius of Milan, St.   
   Eusebius of Vercelli and St. Lucifer of Cagliari; he was sent into   
   Phrygia, to places so remote that Christians had hardly been heard of,   
   and died in exile in the year 358 as expressed in the Roman   
   Martyrology," wearied even to death by the changes and chances of   
   exile far beyond Christian lands, he received from the Lord the crown   
   of a blessed passion, dying at length in Phrygin His body was brought   
   back to Trier by its bishop St. Felix in 396 and enshrined in 402 in   
   the church which bore his name, amid the ruins of which his tomb was   
   found in 1738.   
      
     Great interest attaches to St. Paulinus from the fact that his   
   skeleton, still wrapped in oriental silk-stuffs with fragments of the   
   wooden coffin in which it had been brought from Phrygia, was in 1883   
   taken out of the sarcophagus in which it lay and minutely investigated   
   by a committee of archaeologists and other experts.  The scientists   
   pronounced the relics to be unquestionably authentic, and satisfied   
   themselves that the saint had not, as some stories alleged, been   
   decapitated.   
      
     See the Acta Sanctorum, August, vol. vi, where a Latin life is   
   printed dating from the ninth or tenth century. For the relics, see   
   Father Schneider in the Jahrbuchern des Vereins für Alterthumsfreunden   
   im Rheinlande, vol. 78 (1884), pp. 167 seq. On the life of Paulinus   
   cf. P. Diel, Der hl. Maximinus und der hl. Paulinus (1875).   
      
      
   Originally from Gascony, he was educated in the cathedral school and   
   became a follower of St. Maximinus whom he accompanied to Trier. He   
   succeeded Maximinus as bishop of Trier in 349. A friend and supporter   
   of St. Athanasius, he first met the saint when the bishop of   
   Alexandria was exiled by the Arians to Trier. Paulinus passionately   
   defended Athanasius at the Synod of Arles in 353. Two years later,   
   because of his unflinching opposition to Arianism, Paulinus himself   
   was exiled by Emperor Constantius II to Phrygia, where he died .   
      
      
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   He did all things well.  [Mark 7:37 ]  August: Diligence   
      
   14. How can the sun and moon praise God, as the Prophet exhorts them   
   to? By performing well that task which has been imposed on them by the   
   Lord. This is great praise which they give Him. Behold, then, an   
   excellent way in which you can praise God at all times--by performing   
   well your tasks and whatever you may have to do.   
   --St. Jerome   
      
   St. John Berchmans was most diligent in every employment assigned to   
   him. When he had the care of the Spiritual Father's room, he kept it   
   so neat and so well provided with every little necessary that the   
   Father was astonished, and never found another to equal him. And, what   
   was more, he never disturbed him or said an unnecessary word. When he   
   had charge of the lamps, he never once omitted to look them over and   
   trim them; and if he was going out of town on a holiday, he would   
   either attend to them before starting, or come back in time to have   
   them ready before it was dark. Once being afraid that he should lose   
   this charge, he begged the Father Rector to let him retain it.   
      
   Father Alvarez faithfully fulfilled all the charges imposed on him,   
   observing even the most minute rules, and continued this care and   
   solicitude up to the last day and hour that he held them. When he was   
   Rector he never failed to visit his subjects at the hour of prayer,   
   and he did this up to the day when he left the house to become   
   Provincial.   
   (Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints". )   
      
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