German, but when in a state of ecstasy,
her language became much purer, and her narrations partook at once of
child-like simplicity and dignified inspiration. Her friend wrote down
all that she had said, directly he returned to his own apartments; for
it was seldom that he could so much as even take notes in her presence.
The Giver of all good gifts bestowed upon him memory, zeal, and
strength to bear much trouble and fatigue, so that he has been enabled
to bring this work to a conclusion. His conscience tells him that he
has done his best, and he humbly begs the reader, if satisfied with the
result of his labours, to bestow upon him the alms of an occasional
prayer.

CHAPTER I.

Jesus in the Garden of Olives.

When Jesus left the supper-room with the eleven Apostles, after the
institution of the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar, his soul was deeply
oppressed and his sorrow on the increase. He led the eleven, by an
unfrequented path, to the Valley of Josaphat. As they left the house, I
saw the moon, which was not yet quite at the full, rising in front of
the mountain.

Our Divine Lord; as he wandered with his Apostles about the valley,
told them that here he should one day return to judge the world, but
not in a state of poverty and humiliation, as he then was, and that men
would tremble with fear, and cry: 'Mountains, fall upon us!' His disciples
did not understand him, and thought, by no means for the first time
that night, that weakness and exhaustion had affected his brain. He
said to them again: 'All you shall be scandalised in me this night. For
it is written: I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK
SHALL BE DISPERSED. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before
you into Galilee.'

The Apostles were still in some degree animated by the spirit of
enthusiasm and devotion with which their reception of the Blessed
Sacrament and the solemn and affecting words of Jesus had inspired
them. They eagerly crowded round him, and expressed their love in a
thousand different ways, earnestly protesting that they would never
abandon him. But as Jesus continued to talk in the same strain, Peter
exclaimed: 'Although all shall be scandalised in thee, I will never be
scandalised!' and our Lord answered him: 'Amen, I say to thee, that in this
night, before the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice.' But Peter still
insisted, saying: 'Yea, though I should die with thee, I will not deny
thee.' And the o