publishing what they saw; but they thus were
made unintentionally to contribute to her peace, by saying that her
wounds had ceased to bleed.

On the 19th of February 1822 she was again warned that she would
suffer on the last Friday of March, and not on Good Friday.

On Friday the 15th, and again on Friday the 29th, the cross on her
bosom and the wound of her side bled. Before the 29th, she more than
once felt as though a stream of fire were flowing rapidly from her
heart to her side, and down her arms and legs to the stigmas, which
looked red and inflamed. On the evening of Thursday the 28th, she fell
into a state of contemplation on the Passion, and remained in it until
Friday evening. Her chest, head, and side bled; all the veins of her
hands were swollen, and there was a painful spot in the centre of them,
which felt damp, although blood did not flow from it. No blood flowed
from the stigmas excepting upon the 3rd of March, the day of the
finding of the holy Cross. She had also a vision of the discovery of
the true cross by St. Helena, and imagined herself to be lying in the
excavation near the cross. Much blood came in the morning from her head
and side, and in the afternoon from her hands and feet, and it seemed
to her as though she were being made the test of whether the cross was
really the Cross of Jesus Christ, and that her blood was testifying to
its identity.

In the year 1823, on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, which came on
the 27th and 28th of March, she had visions of the Passion, during
which blood flowed from all her wounds, causing her intense pain. Amid
these awful sufferings, although ravished in spirit, she was obliged to
speak and give answers concerning all her little household affairs, as
if she had been perfectly strong and well, and she never let fall a
complaint, although nearly dying. This was the last time that her blood
gave testimony to the reality of her union with the sufferings of him
who has delivered himself up wholly and entirely for our salvation.
Most of the phenomena of the ecstatic life which are shown us in the
lives and writings of Saints Bridget, Gertrude, Mechtilde, Hildegarde,
Catherine of Sienna, Catherine of Genoa, Catherine of Bologna, Colomba
da Rieti, Lidwina of Schiedam, Catherine Vanini, Teresa of Jesus, Anne
of St. Bartholomew, Magdalen of Pazzi, Mary Villana, Mary Buonomi,
Marina d' Escobar, Crescentia de Kaufbeuern, and many other nuns of
contemplative orders, a