Life of the Apostle St. John #224761

Who has not experienced during his life some of those blessed hours wherein one feels under the influence and as if under the charm ofa being who overrules and of a thought which subjugates? I was under the charm iof St. John; and it was in the light of that spot and of that day that the celestial physiognomy of the Apostle beamed upon me for the first time. I imagined that I saw and felt him, and, wishing likewise to hear him, I took his Gospel and I entered the cloister of St. John Lateran, in order silently to converse with him.