A friend having visited her on the 1st of February in the evening, had placed himself behind her bed where she could not see him, and was listening with the utmost compassion to her low moans and interrupted breathing, when suddenly all became silent, and he thought that she was dead.

At this moment the evening bell ringing for the matins of the Purification was heard.

It was the opening of this festival which had caused her soul to be ravished in ecstasy.

Although still in a very alarming state, she let some sweet and loving words concerning the Blessed Virgin escape her lips during the night and day of the festival.

Towards twelve o'clock in the day, she said in a voice already changed by the near approach of death, 'It was long since I had felt so well.