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“(St.) Robert Bellarmine relates that
having gone to assist a certain dying person, and having exhorted him to
make an act of contrition, the man replied that he did not know what
contrition was. Bellarmine endeavored to explain it to him; but the
sick man said: ‘Father, I do not understand you; I am incapable of these
things.’ And thus he died, ‘leaving clear signs of his damnation,’ as
is recorded in the writings of Bellarmine. The just punishment of the
sinner, says St. Augustine, will be, that having forgotten God in his
lifetime, he shall forget himself in death.”
St. Alphonsus (+1755) - Preparation for Death,
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