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FOR THE FESTIVITY of SAINT CATERINA V(IRGIN) AND M(ARTYR) CELEBRATED AT THE MONASTERY WITH THE TITLE OF SAID SAINT IN AMELIA

(In allusion to the Oil which exudes from her Sepulchre)

SONNET

Dedicated to the Most Illustrious and Most Reverend Sir GIUSEPPE SALUSTIO FADULFI MOST WATCHFUL SHEPHERD AND BISHOP OF THE SAID CITY

As soon from us left of Caterina The soul to walk the ways of the Pole, That her body, though terrestrial On Angelical Feathers raised the great Flight.

She had her tomb in serene region Of the Sinai then on the revered soil, And to her Elegies (raised) of sweet harmony Of the Immortal Orquestra (the) musical Host.

Then from the Holy Sepulchre, famous today, Did not flow of Aretusa corrupt humours But Fluid that on the water gaudy floats.

Because from where every Virtue flowed From a Pallade had to flow charmingly The Golden Liquor of such a tormented Olive.

Most Devoted and Reverent Nun Lucia Margherita Rossi (Sacristan) In TODI, for Giovan Domenico Faustini with licence of the Superiors, 1681