PL 10 • Age 16 • 1601

I wanted to die for my faith!

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When Mary was sixteen and read the lives of the holy martyrs, she was seized with such a burning desire to follow their example that she felt only martyrdom itself could satisfy her longing, until our Saviour revealed to her interiorly that what He required of her was spiritual rather than bodily martyrdom.

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Mary herself is the dominant person in the painting - both in repose holding various instruments of torture and in prayer before a candle.

The scene shows instruments of torture: the gallows, cross, stocks, sword, axe, and fire/stake imagery.

A small inset shows Mary receiving an interior revelation - a state of peace when God reveals she was not to long for bodily martyrdom.

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PL 10 • Age 16 • 1601

I wanted to die for my faith!

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