If her sacrifice was accepted, her energy seemed to abandon her, and she was left to the repugnance of human nature for suffering.

When she had gone through this trial, by keeping her eyes fixed on her Redeemer in the Garden of Olives, she next had to endure indescribable sufferings of every description, bearing them all with wonderful patience and sweetness.

We used to see her remain several days together, motionless and insensible, looking like a dying lamb.

Did we ask her how she was, she would half open her eyes, and reply with a sweet smile, 'My sufferings are most salutary.' At the beginning of Advent, her sufferings were a little soothed by sweet visions of the preparations made by the Blessed Virgin to leave her home, and then of her whole journey with St.Joseph to Bethlehem.
She accompanied them each day to the humble inns where they rested for the night, or went on before them to prepare their lodgings.

During this time she used to take old pieces of linen, and at night, while sleeping, make them into baby clothes and caps for the children of poor women, the times of whose confinements were near at hand.