CHAPTER XIII. His Tour On The Continent In 1844--280 CHAPTER XIV. Close Of His Career In Oscott; And His Religious Vocation--343 {xxix } BOOK IV. _Father Ignatius, a Passionist_ CHAPTER I. The Noviciate--351 CHAPTER II. His First Year As A Passionist--361 CHAPTER III. A Peculiar Mission--368 CHAPTER IV. Death Of Father Dominic--374 CHAPTER V. Spirit Of Father Ignatius At This Time--380 CHAPTER VI. His Dealings With Protestants And Prayers For Union--387 CHAPTER VII. Father Ignatius In 1850--393 CHAPTER VIII. A New Form Of "The Crusade"--400 CHAPTER IX. Visit To Rome And "The Association Of Prayers"--413 CHAPTER X. A Tour In Germany--428 {xxx} CHAPTER XI. Father Ignatius Returns To England--436 CHAPTER XII. A Little Of His Home And Foreign Work--443 CHAPTER XIII. Sanctification Of Ireland--449 CHAPTER XIV. Another Tour On The Continent--453 CHAPTER XV. Father Ignatius In 1857--458 CHAPTER XVI. His "Little Missions"--464 CHAPTER XVII. Father Ignatius At Home--469 CHAPTER XVIII. A Few Events--477 CHAPTER XIX. Trials And Crosses--483 CHAPTER XX. Foreshadowings And Death--495 CHAPTER XXI. The Obsequies Of Father Ignatius--504 {xxxi} BOOK I. _F. Ignatius, a Young Noble._ {xxxii} {1} [Image of Cross] I X P LIFE OF FATHER IGNATIUS OF ST. PAUL, PASSIONIST. BOOK I. _F. Ignatius, a Young Noble._ CHAPTER I. His Childhood. Saint Paul gives the general history of childhood in one sentence: "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child." The thoughts and ways of children are wonderfully similar; the mind is not sufficiently developed to give direction to character, and the peculiar incidents that are sometimes recorded to prove "the child the father of the man," seem more the result of chance than deliberation. With all this, we like to bask our memory in those sunny days: we love to look at our cradles, at where we made and spoiled our little castles, and we recall the smallest incidents to mind, as if to try and fancy we could be children again. This natural sentiment makes us anxious to know all about the infancy and childhood of those whose life has an interest for us; {2} although knowing that there can be nothing very strange about it; and even, if there be, that it cannot have much weight in moulding the character of our hero, and less still in influencing our own. The childhood of Father Ignatius forms an exception to this. It is wonderful; it shaped his character for a great part of his life. Its history is written by himself, and it is instructive to all who have charge of children. Before quoting from his own autobiography, it may be well to say something about his family; more, because it is customary to do so on occasions like the present, than to give information about what is already well known.