Redeemer. I entreat the name you bear, to deign your soul, and in honor of our Lord and Savior, I bid many times.
Holy Virgin, whose to be the mother of her who is mother of you adieu again and
I now devote you to God forever and ever; it is what I desire for you from the very depth of my heart. Your very good and affectionate mother, MARIA. From Amiens, the 10th of June, 1625. The devout sense of responsibility to Almighty God, and the spirit of submission and obedience to his will, which this letter breathes, descended from the grandmother to the mother, and were even instilled, in some degree, into the heart of the son. They remained, however, latent and dormant through the long years of the monarch's life of frivolity and sin, but they revived and reasserted their dominion when the end came. The dying scene opened upon the king's vision in a very abrupt and sudden manner. He had been somewhat unwell during a certain day in February, when he was about fifty-four years of