"I am not fit to live on earth," she would say; "I know not why I am still there; I can no longer bear either myself or others; there is none that seeketh after God." She was piously unjust towards her age, and still more towards her friends; it was the honorable distinction of M.de St.
Cyran and his disciples that they did seek after God and holiness, at every cost and every risk.
Mother Angelica was nearing the repose of eternity, the only repose admitted by her brother M.Arnauld, when the storm of persecution burst upon the monastery.

The Augustinus of Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres, a friend of M.de St.Cyran's, had just been condemned at Rome.

Five propositions concerning grace were pronounced heretical.

"The pope has a right to condemn them," said the Jansenists, "if they are to be found in the Augustinus, but, in fact, they are not to be found there." The dispute waxed hot; M.Arnauld threw himself into it passionately.

He, in his turn, was condemned by the Sorbonne.