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'What, my brothers, do you see nothing but the rags of these poor creatures? And do you see nothing beneath the rags but the poor creatures themselves? St. Gregory gave to a man in rags, but the man was Jesus Christ Himself.'

St. Camillus de Lellis

'I have given myself entirely to God, even to the hour of my death, and I feel that I shall die happy if during life I entertain a great love for the Most Blessed Sacrament and for the Blessed Virgin, my Mother.'

Bl. Peter Julian Eymard

So that John would not infect his brother priests, he lived in a large barrel in an open field.   
Nuns from a nearby convent would bring him food regularly.

Lecto Divina was founded by Saint Benedict and Pope Gregory I in the 6th century.

'I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus himself in perfect safety.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

'The love of God is a jealous love. One atom of irregular affection for creatures suffices to ruin everything.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'Blessed is he who has attained boundless infinity, transcending all that is transitory.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

'There are many things which seem to us misfortunes and which we call such; but if we understood the designs of God we would call them graces.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.'

St. Thomas More

This is a fascinating and uplifting quote, many thanks.  It leaves me wondering how we would have prayed for St Thomas during his 15 months in the Tower.  It makes me think that the Sainthood that resulted from his martyrdom, and the consequent miracles and his unknowable Divine inspiration, were certainly a great good, which offset at least some of the evil of Henry VIII.  I struggle with the question could Thomas' imprisonment and execution been God's Will?  The biography in Delaney cites two ironies:  St Thomas was a tutor of Henry for a time, and Thomas considered application as a Carthusian, but decided against.

Fidelis studied law and philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.