of eternal life, and aid you to enter into that kingdom of glory whither your hearts are already gone before.
Note.
The compiler of the Raccolta was a Roman priest of the name of Telesphorus Galli, canon of the celebrated Basilica of St. Mary in Cosmedin, Consulter of the Holy Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics. Thus much we know of him from the decree of this said Holy Congregation, printed at the end of the Raccolta. He was a man of great piety, ardently devoted to the good of souls, not only in the exercise of his sacred ministry, but also in the promulgation of different pious exercises, which he used to spread by means of the press. He was open-handed to the poor, most devout to the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, which he used to visit every day wherever it was exposed for the Forty Hours. Nor was he less devoted to the holy souls in purgatory, by whose intercession he had often obtained great graces from God throughout the whole course of a life of seventy-seven years and twenty-nine days; for to them and in their behalf he had with heroical charity ceded and given over during his life all the suffrages which should be made for him after his death, which took place February 17, 1845. Moreover, in his last will he expressed a wish that a memorial should be engraved on his tombstone, how that it was his desire that the faithful on earth should continue in his place to offer up their suffrages for those holy souls. This epitaph may be read in the public cemetery of S. Spirito in Sassia, where his body lies according to his desire.
