Excerpt from A Compendium Life of St. Rita: Devotional Exercises, Novena and Triduum, Instructions on Novenas Etc O blessed St. Rita, our patroness and guide, we lay this chaplet at thy feet, a litany, as we do the thoughts, the la bors, the sufferings of our lives, that holding daily before our eyes the gen tle purity, patience and sanctity of thy example our lives may be lived in some poor image of thine own, even unto life everlasting. 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.