“O my dearest Lord! If I had been the stones and the earth where Thy Cross was planted, what grace and consolation I should have felt in receiving the Blood which flowed from Thy Wounds!”—St. Catherine of Siena (St. Jean-Marie Vianney repeated these, as quoted in “The Spirit of the Curé of Ars [St. J.B.M. Vianney] tr. from the Fr., ed. by J. E. Bowden”, pub. by Burns, Lambert, and Oates, 1865, pg. 181)