Reflections from the Mirror of a Mystic Spiritual Life So counsels are given on

So counsels are given on growth in virtue

“Wide as the sea

” indicating Hermann's authorship and the year of completion

and prepare for eternity

His biographer tells us that the Curé d'Ars devotion to this holy virgin and martyr was almost chivalrous

Reflections from the Mirror of a Mystic Spiritual Life So counsels are given onBl. John Ruysbroeck (Jan van Ruusbroec), surnamed the Admirable, was born in Belgium in 1293. The rare grace of contemplation attended him from childhood. Until the age of sixty he lived as a secular priest; he then left the world and retired to a monastery near Brussels. These selections taken from the works of Blessed John Ruysbroeck contain lessons of piety suitable to every state and condition of life. No one is so perverse or devoid of grace, as