A short time after, having gone with her landlady's little girl to visit an old hermitage near Dulmen, she all on a sudden fell into an ecstasy, fainted away, and on her recovery was taken home by a poor peasant woman.

The sharp pain which she felt in her chest continued to increase, and she saw that there was what looked like a cross, about three inches in length, pressed tightly upon her breast-bone, and looking red through the skin.

As she had spoken about her vision to a nun with whom she was intimate, her extraordinary state began to be a good deal talked of.

On All Souls' day, 1812, she went out for the last time, and with much difficulty succeeded in reaching the church.

From that time till the end of the year she seemed to be dying, and received the last Sacraments.