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  • She enjoyed the familiar conversation of her angel-guardian, as her life and the process of her canonization {552} attest.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • Her angel-guardian used to appear to her as a child; and when she was taking care of sheep in the fields, the Good Shepherd himself, under the form of a young shepherd, would frequently come to her assistance.

    The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 1774-1824 1862

  • I always beheld my angel-guardian at my side, and although the devil used frequently to assault and terrify me in various ways, he was never permitted to do me much harm.

    The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 1774-1824 1862

  • But oh, human frailty! the light falling on an open case of rare jewels, and some costly articles of her bridal trousseau, met her eye; then followed visions of splendor -- of such power as wealth gives -- of equipages and luxury, which swept away, like ocean-tides, the thoughts which her angel-guardian had written on her conscience.

    May Brooke Anna Hanson Dorsey 1855

  • She began to be very frightened; knowing that her absence would cause great alarm; but we are assured that, on returning in the morning, she found she had not been missed, her angel-guardian having taken her form, and discharged all the household offices which it was her duty to perform.

    The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others Georgiana Fullerton 1848

  • It grieved her much not to be able to go oftener; but her angel-guardian taught her to submit in this matter to her mother's pleasure, and to supply the place of more frequent confession by every evening examining her conscience, and confessing her daily faults before the same picture as before.

    The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others Georgiana Fullerton 1848

  • Our angel-guardian is as incessantly by our side, as if our eyes were opened to behold his effulgent radiance.

    The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others Georgiana Fullerton 1848

  • Satan, was once a powerful angel-guardian before being corrupted by his evil desires.

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