Excerpt from Life of Saint Gerard Maiella: Lay-Brother of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer It is, however, the duty of the author, in Obedience to the decrees of Pope Urban VIII, to protest at the outset that he attaches a purely human value to any miracles, revelations, prophecies or other appar ently supernatural occurrences which he relates in the course of this little book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.