“There are people who think there is no holiness without miracles. We, on the contrary, do not think highly of miracles, for both the elect and the reprobate work them. We find no or few miracles in the great Patriarchs and many other Saints who were very pleasing to God.”

“Let each one think what he wants, but this is our opinion, and according to us, clever people, especially those who know the science of nature, do not think otherwise; in the midst of such long and violent headaches, not to lose the awareness of God, the habit of invoking Him and a religious piety, is not a less exceptional or less important fact than not having denied one’s faith, showing an insurmountable constancy in torture…”

“What one finds in the Charterhouse, then, is not a collection of great mystics and men of dazzling spiritual gifts, but simple and rugged souls whose mysticism is all swallowed up in a faith too big and too simple for visions.” –Guigo ‘The Life of Saint Hugh, Bishop of Grenoble

Carducho, Vicente; The Dream of Saint Hugh, Bishop of Grenoble; National Galleries of Scotland;