contemplating in spirit. She saw the signification of all the festival
days of the ecclesiastical year under both a devotional and a
historical point of view. She saw and described, day by day, with the
minutest detail, and by name, places, persons, festivals, customs, and
miracles, all that happened during the public life of Jesus until the
Ascension, and the history of the Apostles for several weeks after the
Descent of the Holy Ghost. She regarded al her visions not as mere
spiritual enjoyments, but as being, so to speak, fertile fields,
plentifully strewn with the merits of Christ, and which had not as yet
been cultivated; she was often engaged in spirit in praying that the
fruit of such and such sufferings of our Lord might be given to the
Church, and she would beseech God to apply to his Church the merits of
our Saviour which were its inheritance, and of which she would, as it
were, take possession, in its name, with the most touching simplicity
and ingenuousness.

She never considered her visions to have any reference to her
exterior Christian life, nor did she regard them as being of any
historical value. Exteriorly she knew and believed nothing but the
catechism, the common history of the Bible, the gospels for Sundays and
festivals, and the Christian almanac, which to her far-sighted vision
was an inexhaustible mine of hidden riches, since it gave her in a few
pages a guiding thread which led her through all time, and by means of
which she passed from mystery to mystery, and solemnised each with all
the saints, in order to reap the fruits of eternity in time, and to
preserve and distribute them in her pilgrimage around the
ecclesiastical year, that so the will of God might be accomplished on
earth as it is in Heaven. She had never read the Old or the New
Testaments, and when she was tired of relating her visions, she would
sometimes say: 'Read that in the Bible,' and then be astonished to learn