Then he disappeared, and I returned to myself, feeling, however, violent pain around my head.

I was obliged to leave the church, which was going to be closed.

One of my companions was kneeling by my side, and as I thought she might have seen what happened to me, I asked her when we got home whether there was not a wound on my forehead, and spoke to her in general terms of my vision, and of the violent pain which had followed it.

She could see nothing outwardly, but was not astonished at what I told her, because she knew that I was sometimes in an extraordinary state, without her being able to understand the cause.
The next day my forehead and temples were very much swelled, and I suffered terribly.

This pain and swelling often returned, and sometimes lasted whole days and nights.