Later the skin often rose in blisters on this place, as if from a burn, and when these blisters burst a burning colourless liquid issued from them, sometimes in such quantities as to soak through several sheets.

She was long without perceiving what the case really was, and only thought that she was in a strong perspiration.

The particular meaning of this mark has never been known.
Some weeks later, when making the same prayer, she fell into an ecstasy, and beheld the same apparition, which presented her with a little cross of the shape described in her accounts of the Passion.

She eagerly received and fervently pressed it to her bosom, and then returned it.

She said that this cross was as soft and white as wax, but she was not at first aware that it had made an external mark upon her bosom.