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A28645 The soliloquies of St. Bonaventure containing his four mental exercises and also his treatise called, A bundle of myrrh, concerning the passion of our Saviour : with XII spirituall exercises of the said St. Bonaventure. Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274. 1655 (1655) Wing B3555; ESTC R27893 73,818 360

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