Citations:extenuation


 * 1873, A.V.S. Sligo (translator), R.F. Calixte (author), The Life of the Venerable , page 303:
 * The works translated from will be in most cases the Lives drawn up for or from the processes of canonisation or beatification, as being more full, more authentic, and more replete with anecdote, thus enabling the reader to become better acquainted with the Saint’s disposition and spirit; while the simple matter-of-fact style of the narrative is, from its unobtrusive character, more adapted for spiritual reading than the views and generalisations, and prologetic extenuations of more recent biographers.