Saint Treverius exhaled a fragrance compounded of roses, lilies, balm, and incense; Saint Rose of Viterbo smelt of roses; Saint Cajetan of orange-blossom; Saint Catherine of Ricci of violets; Saint Theresa by turns of lily, jasmine and violet; Saint Thomas Aquinas of incense; Saint Francis of Paul of musk;--I mention these at random as they occur to me.
"Yes, and Saint Lydwine, when so ill, diffused a fragrance which also imparted a flavour.

Her wounds exhaled a cheerful savour of spice and the very essence of Flemish home cooking--a refined extract of cinnamon." "On the other hand," the Abbe went on, "the stench of wizards and witches was notorious in the Middle Ages.

On this point all exorcists and writers on Demonology are agreed; and it is almost invariably recorded that after an apparition of the devil a foul odour of sulphur was left in the cells, even when the Saints had succeeded in dislodging him.
"But the essential odour of the devil is amply recorded in the life of Christina of Stumbela.

You are not ignorant, I suppose, of the exploits in which Satan indulged against that saint ?" "Indeed, I am, Monsieur l'Abbe." "Then I may tell you that the narrative of these assaults has been preserved by the Bollandists, who have included the life of this pious woman in their biographies.

It was written by Peter of Dacia, a Dominican, and her confessor.
"Christina was born early in the thirteenth century--1242, I believe--at Stumbela, near Cologne.
"She was persecuted by the devil from her infancy.