greater perfection, and she made the same use of this second mortifying
rejection. Being more and more impressed with a desire to consecrate
herself to God, she resolved on making a vow of perpetual chastity,
first acquainting M. Landret, her confessor, with her intention. He was
a prudent man, and thought that circumstanced as she was, she might
sometime repent having made the vow, or something might occur to change
her resolution, and therefore told her to postpone such a promise until
she was at least thirty years old, being then twenty-two. She submitted
to his decision in silence, as humbly as if God had spoken. He soon
changed his opinion, however, being convinced by her submission that God
was operating great things in her soul, and permitted her to follow her
inclination by consecrating her virginity to Jesus, which she did with
fervor on the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, December 21st, 1643,
being in her twenty-third year. Shortly after she added the a vow of
poverty, and from that time her career of sanctity was unmistakable. She
advanced in virtue as she advanced in age, and the practise of every
good work, and held the office of Prefect of the extern congregation for
many years. In 1647, her father falling dangerously sick, she attended
him with all the love and charity that might be expected from such a
daughter, and had the consolation of seeing him die full of hope and
trust in the mercy of God. She arranged his body in the coffin with her
own hands, although others were willing to spare her the performance of
that duty of filial love, and the pious practice of preparing the dead
for burial she ever after continued in Canada, until strength and life
failed her, although it was often repugnant to her feelings.

As M. Jandret knew the humiliation she endured by being refused
admission in two religious orders, and knew also her virtues, he did not
feel justified in advising anything that would stifle the operations of
divine grace in her soul. He was, moreover, an eye-witness of her