On his return, at the beginning of November, he again passed a day with her.

He remained her friend until death, prayed constantly for her, and asked her prayers whenever he found himself in trying of difficult positions.

The writer of these pages remained until January.

He returned in May 1819, and continued to watch Anne Catherine almost uninterruptedly until her death.
The saintly maiden continually besought the Almighty to remove the exterior stigmas, on account of the trouble and fatigue which they occasioned, and her prayer was granted at the end of seven years.
Towards the conclusion of the year 1819, the blood first flowed less frequently from her wounds, and then ceased altogether.

On the 25th of December, scabs fell from her feet and hands, and there only remained white scars, which became red on certain days, but the pain she suffered was undiminished in the slightest degree.