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THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS

The Fifteen Prayers

revealed by

OUR LORD TO SAINT BRIDGET

in the Church of Saint Paul at Rome

APPROBATION

These prayers and the promises made for their recital, were copied from a book printed in Toulouse in 1740 and published by Father Adrien Parvilliers of the Society of Jesus, Missionary Apostolic of the Holy Land with the approbation, permission and the recommendation to spread the devotion.

At the time of St. Bridget in the XIV century, printing had not been invented but recourse was had to copyists. Pope Urban VI encouraged the multiplication of the number of copies of the revelations of St. Bridget, which Kings, Bishops, Universities, Convents, and Libraries were clamoring for.

PROMISES

As St. Bridget had been desirous

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