The Importance of Devotion

The mention of either could send him into ecstasy and into levitation. Also the other saints, Christmas carols, there were all kinds of things that caused him to rise in ecstasy. The humility of the saints, you know, bristles at that sort of thing; they don't want to be seen to be holy. And so it really is a demonstration, a kind of visual aid, if you will, that God makes of the saints.