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Nonnunquam vero in consolatione egredientis animæ ipse apparere solet auctor ac retributor vitæ. Unde et hoc quod de Tharsilla amita mea in Homi. liis Evangelii dixisse me recolo(Hom. 3M) replicabo; quae inter duas alias sorores suas virtute continuae orationis, gravitate vitae, singularitate abstinentiae, ad culmen sanctitatis excreverat. Huic per visionem h Felix atavus meus hujus Romanæ Ecclesiæ antistes apparuit, eique mansionem perpetuæ claritatis ostendit, dicens: Veni, quia in hac te lucis mansione suscipio. Quæ'subsequenti mox febre correpta, ad diem pervenit extremum. Et sicut nobilibus feminis virisque morientibus.
但有時，在安慰那將要離世的靈魂之際，那生命的創始者與賞賜者親自顯現。因此我要重述我記得曾在《福音講道集》（第三十八篇）中論及我姑母塔爾西拉之事；她在其另外兩位姊妹之間，藉著不斷禱告的德行、生活的莊重、以及超群的節制，成長到聖德的巔峰。在異象中，我的先祖、這羅馬教會的主教斐理斯向她顯現，並指給她看一個永恆光明的居所，說：「來吧，因為我要在這光明的居所中接納你。」不久她便被熱病所襲，來到了她的末日。正如高貴的婦女與男子臨終時一樣，
But sometimes, in consoling the departing soul, the very Author and Rewarder of life is wont to appear. Hence I will repeat also what I recall having said about my aunt Tharsilla in the Homilies on the Gospel (Homily 38); who, among her two other sisters, had grown up to the summit of holiness by the virtue of continual prayer, by gravity of life, and by singular abstinence. To her, in a vision, appeared Felix, my ancestor, bishop of this Roman Church, and showed her a dwelling of everlasting brightness, saying: 「Come, for in this dwelling of light I receive you.」 Soon after, seized by a fever, she came to her last day. And as with noble women and men when they are dying,
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multi conveniunt qui eorum proximos consolentur, eadem hora exitus ipsiu. multi viri ac feminae ejas lectulum circumsteterunt. Cum subito illa sursum respiciens, Jesum venientem vidit, < t cum magua animadversione caepit circumstantibus clamare, dicens: Recedite, reeedite, Jesu. venit. Cumque in eum intenderetqueni videbat, saneta illa anima e corpore est egressa. Tantaque subita fragrantia miri odoris aspersa est, ut ipsa quoque suavitas cunctis ostenderet illic auctorem suaVitatis venisse. 400 Cumque corpus ejus ex more murtuorum ad lavandum esset nudatum, 1 longo orationis usu in cubitis ejus et genibus camelorum mere inventa est obdurata cutis excrevhse;
許多人聚集來安慰她的親屬；正在她離世的那一刻，許多男女站在她床邊。忽然她向上仰望，看見耶穌前來，就極其懇切地向周圍站著的人呼喊說：「退開，退開，耶穌來了。」當她凝望她所看見的那一位時，那聖潔的靈魂便從身體出去了。頓時有如此奇異香氣的芬芳散播開來，以致那甘美本身向眾人顯明：那甘美的創始者已來到此處。當她的身體按死者的慣例被脫去衣裳以便清洗時，因長久禱告之故，她的手肘與膝上的皮膚被發現已變硬增厚，如同駱駝的胼胝一般；
many gather to console their kinsfolk; at the very hour of her departure many men and women stood around her bed. When suddenly she, looking upward, saw Jesus coming, and with great earnestness began to cry out to those standing about, saying: 「Withdraw, withdraw, Jesus is coming.」 And while she fixed her gaze on Him whom she saw, that holy soul went forth from the body. And so great a sudden fragrance of wondrous odour was scattered abroad that its very sweetness showed to all that the Author of sweetness had come thither. And when her body, after the custom of the dead, had been stripped for washing, from the long practice of prayer the skin on her elbows and knees was found to have grown hardened, like the callouses of camels;
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et quid vivens ejus spiritus semper egerit, caro mortua testabatur.
她活著時的心靈常做何事，她那已死的肉體便為之作了見證。
and what her living spirit had ever done, her dead flesh bore witness to.