“When we have two or three minutes left over from our office,” he would say, “how can we use them to better advantage than in compassionating our dear mother? Let us not forget her anguish, and at the hour of death, the Madonna will console and assist us: yea, if expedient for our soul she will show herself to us then, and will manage that we do not feel the pains of death.” St. Gabriel of Possenti. (From ‘The life of Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Gabriel Possenti, of the Congregation of the passion’ Begun by Rev.Hage Hyacinth, C.P., and finished by Rev. Nicholas Ward, C.P., pub. 1910