Olympia Morata - 1846 Author:Robert Turnbull Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Happy change of circumstances.—Olympia's stay at Furstenberg and Erbach, with the families of the Counts of Rhineck and Erbach.—Appointment of Dr... more ». Grundler, by the Elector Palatine, to the Professorship of Medicine in the University of Heidelberg.— The removal of Olympia with her husband to that place.—A period of repose.—The Plague at Heidelberg.—Olympia at home.—Her pursuits.—Her piety and charity.—Failing health.—Correspondence.—Letter to Vergerio, Bishop of Justinopolis.—Dangerous illness.—Last letters to Curio and other friends.—Her glorious and - triumphant death.—Correspondence on the subject.—Tributes to her memory. Having escaped from the perils to which they were exposed, as described by Olympia, at the close of the preceding chapter, they speedily found succor and protection. " From this time forth," as she gratefully expresses herself, " God began to look favorably on those whom he had long seen meet so variously and severely to try." " He first conducted us," she adds, " to the protection of the noble Count of Rhineck, and afterwards to that of the illustrious Count of Erbach, both of whom received us frankly, and loaded us with many presents." These Counts were both of them Protestants,and " had often hazarded their own lives and fortunes for Christianity." They were therefore well prepared to receive the wanderers, and afford them solace and cheer. Elizabeth, Countess of Rhineck, sister to the Elector Palatine, (of whose own life and sufferings, and pious resignation under them, Olympia has left an affecting account,) watched over her poor sick guest with the tenderness of a mother, clothed her from her own wardrobe, " waited upon her with her own hands, and was ever ready to afford her assistance and consolation." At the same time the ti...« less