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SAINT PAUL OF THE CROSS, CONFESSOR Paul of the Cross, at the century Paolo Francesco Danei, born in Ovada in Monferrato (province of Alessandria) the 3rd of January 1694, native of a noble family of Castellazzo near Alessandria, what would be in the future the greatness of his holiness made him know a marvelous splendour, that the night he was born filled his mother's room, and the illustrious benefit of the august Queen of Heaven, who, as a child, saved him unharmed from certain wreck from a fall in a river. From the first use of reason inflamed with love for Jesus Christ crucified, he began to abandon himself for a long time to the contemplation of Him, and to torture his most innocent flesh with vigils, disciplines, fasts, and other harsh penances, drinking on Fridays only vinegar mixed with gall.