ng but shame,
ignominy, and confusion." The renowned martyr St. Lawrence turned out
to be the burned man the devil saw with the cup.

St. Margaret at one time had a severe encounter with a serpent that
appeared with death in his looks. She triumphed then as well as at
other times. The enemy wounded her sorely and often, but she was
cured, and ever afterwards had peace.

St. Ignatius had a strange command over the devils, who abhorred and
persecuted him as their great enemy. Both at Paris and Rome the devils
appeared to him in ugly shapes. Before he prevailed they nearly choked
him, and scourged him so sorely that he did not recover for some time.
In St. Ignatius' life-time the arch-fiend seems to have had
considerable power. At one time he possessed a child, a woman, and a
soldier, and raised tempests and furious storms. How far the mischief
would have been continued no one can tell, had not this saint
withstood him to the face. It fell upon a time that the holy fathers,
in a certain Loretto college, were greatly disturbed night and day by
devils making a hideous noise, and appearing like black-a-moors, cats,
bears, and other beasts. Recourse was had by saying holy mass,
prayers, sprinkling holy water, using exorcisms, and applying relics
of saints, without effect. Father Ignatius' assistance was ultimately
solicited; and he, without much difficulty, drove away the tormentors
as if they had been as many mice.

St. Stephen exercised great control over Satan. The saint cured no
fewer than threescore and thirteen persons possessed of devils.

Satan had a deadly hatred against St. Dominick, and often endeavoured
to destroy his soul and body. St. Donatus was another mark at which
the devil shot his fiercest arrows; but a man who raised the dead, as
this saint did, did not stand in fear of an evil spirit. St. Donatus
raised to life a woman that died suddenly without informing her
husband where she had concealed a sum of money belonging to him. From
the mouth of the grave the resuscitated woman told where the treasure
lay. A dishonest creditor was proved to be a false swearer and cheat
by a corpse endowed with speech by St. Donatus.

St. Cyriacus, St. Largus, and St. Smaragdus drove evil spirits not
only out of afflicted persons, but out of the country. Cyriacus, in
particular, was so famous for his power over evil spirits, that
princes in distant lands solicited his assistance to banish the demons
to their own peculiar