It was thus that Anne Catherine, in her ecstatic life, beheld the series of her prayers for the Church under the forms of parables bearing reference to agriculture, gardening, weaving, sowing, or the care of sheep.

All these different occupations were arranged, according to their signification, in the different periods of the common as well as the ecclesiastical year, and were pursued under the patronage and with the assistance of the saints of each day, the special graces of the corresponding feasts of the Church being also applied to them.

The signification of this circles of symbols had reference to all the active part of her interior life.

One example will help to explain our meaning.

When Anne Catherine, while yet a child, was employed in weeding, she besought God to root up the cockle from the field of the Church.