“Saints felt as much delight in the offensive odours which surround the sick and the infected as they would in a garden of the most fragrant flowers.” – ALPHONSUS LIGUORI

“To mortify the smell you must abstain from the use of perfumes and of scented waters ; such delicacies are unbecoming even in worldlings. Animated by the spirit of charity and mortification, the Saints felt as much delight in the offensive odours which surround the sick and the infected as they would in a garden of the most fragrant flowers. Let it be your study to imitate their example, and to bear patiently the disagreeable smell which you may experience in the rooms of the sick.” – ALPHONSUS LIGUORI

Liguori, A. M. de.(1913). The true spouse of Christ, or, The nun sanctified by the virtues of her state. New York, Cincinnati & Chicago: Benziger Brothers, p. 148.

Alphonsus Maria Liguori (1696–1787)was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, philosopher and theologian. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists. A prolific writer, he published nine editions of his Moral Theology in his lifetime, in addition to other devotional and ascetic works and letters. One of the most widely read Catholic authors, he is the patron saint of confessors.

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