It was with astonishment that she beheld blood flowing from the palms of her hands, and felt violent pain in her feet and side.

It happened that her landlady's little daughter came into her room, saw her hands bleeding, and ran to tell her mother, who with great anxiety asked Anne Catherine what had happened, but was begged by her not to speak about it.

She felt, after having received the stigmas, that an entire change had taken place in her body; for the course of her blood seemed to have changed, and to flow rapidly towards the stigmas.

She herself used to say: 'No words can describe in what manner it flows.' We are indebted to a curious incident for our knowledge of the circumstances which we have here related.

On the 15th December 1819, she had a detailed vision of all that had happened to herself, but so that she thought it concerned some other nun who she imagined must be living not far off, and who she supposed had experienced the same things as herself.