The Marian Garden: Ancient and New

2. Since this was well known to the Reverend Father Angelo Maria Montursio of pious memory, when he was going to bed, he was accustomed to sprinkle not only his body but also his cell and his small bed with lustral water to put to flight the enemy of the human race and his phantasms. Upon entering churches, he would sprinkle himself with the same water, saying: "Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop," etc. Having later become General of the Order, for the common salvation of all his subjects, beyond that water which we must always have in the cell or above or near the small altar, for the same reason—as I mentioned above—he ordained that every month a priest, adorned with surplice and stole, should go around the dormitory and bless all the cells with holy water.

3. The same Father Montursio, arriving at the final moment of his life, a little before he exhaled his blessed soul, saw to it that he was sprinkled with lustral water, and soon, full of days, he died piously, as Pandolphus narrates.

4. Blessed Sister Artemisia Tudertina wished to be sanctified by the virtue of lustral water; for, having reached the end of her life, before she rendered her soul to God, so that she might be presented all the purer to her heavenly spouse, she humbly asked the Mother Prioress to deign to sprinkle her with holy water, which she obtained. Annales, Century 4, Book 4, Chapter 5

5. The Saints themselves, already glorious in heaven, approve how much utility the pious use of this blessed water confers upon the faithful in this world, and this in particular our Holy Father Philip Benitius,