“Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”

— Rose of Lima

In P. Léonard Hansen, Vita mirabilis, 1664, p. 137 https://archive.org/details/wotb_6743752/page/137/mode/2up?view=theater; quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1992, § 618 https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1O.HTM.

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Peruvian colonist and Dominican saint 1586–1617

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