The Exercises OF SAINT GERTRUDE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS, Of the Order of St. Benedict. LONDON: 17 PORTMAN STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE. 1863. 100.u.29. This little volume may be regarded as a Supplement to the Prayers of St. Gertrude. It has been translated from the edition recently published by Dom Guéranger, whose interesting Preface renders further introduction superfluous. Oratory School, Birmingham, PREFACE. BY THE REV. FATHER DOM GUÉRANGER, ABBOT OF SOLESMES. IN giving to the public this edition of the Exercises of St. Gertrude, we think that it may be useful to prefix to it a brief notice of the illustrious Saint to whom we owe this exquisite little book. It is not our intention to recount at large the operations of divine grace in that favoured soul; this we reserve for a separate work. Our object is only to send out these Exercises with an appropriate introduction, although we are well assured that we are giving pleasure to all devout souls, whose attention seems called in a remarkable way to all that concerns St. Gertrude. The success which attended the republication of the Life and Revelations of this great Saint has shown this; and the |