Three times did they plunge her hand into the piscina, and each time they saw the needle moving along, till it came out by the tip of the thumb.

She shrieked, of course, because the needle was moving though her flesh just as though somebody had been pushing it to drive it out.

And after that Celestine never suffered again, and only a little scar could be seen on her hand as a mark of what the Blessed Virgin had done." This anecdote produced a greater effect than even the miraculous cures of the most fearful illnesses.

A needle which moved as though somebody were pushing it! This peopled the Invisible, showed each sufferer his Guardian Angel standing behind him, only awaiting the orders of Heaven in order to render him assistance.

And besides, how pretty and childlike the story was--this needle which came out in the miraculous water after obstinately refusing to stir during seven long years.