miracle, and held it up in the air above the throng of heretics; more
than one hundred of whom were converted, by seeing it thus
supernaturally suspended.

I had been informed by the Superior, on my first admission as a nun,
that there was a subterraneous passage, leading from the cellar of our
Convent into that of the Congregational Nunnery; but, though I had so
often visited the cellar, I had never seen it. One day, after I had been
received three or four months, I was sent to walk through it upon my
knees with another nun, as a penance. This, and other penances, were
sometimes put upon us by the priests, without any reason assigned. The
common way, indeed, was to tell us of the sin for which a penance was
imposed, but we were left many times to conjecture. Now and then the
priests would inform us at a subsequent confession, when he happened to
recollect something about it, as I thought, and not because he
reflected, or cared much about the subject.

The nun who was with me led me through the cellar, passing to the right
of the secret burying place, and showed me the door of the subterraneous
passage, which was at the extremity towards the Congregational Nunnery.
The reasons why I had not noticed it before, I presume, were that it was
made to shut close and even with the wall, and all that part of the
cellar was whitewashed. The door, which is of wood, and square, opens
with a latch into a passage, about four feet and a half high. We
immediately got upon our knees, commenced saying the prayers required,
and began to move slowly along the dark and narrow passage. It may be
fifty or sixty feet in length; when we reached the end, we opened a
door, and found ourselves in the cellar of the Congregational Nunnery,
at some distance from the outer wall; for the covered way is carried in
towards the middle of the cellar by two low partitions covered at the