and how He appeared to her for the first time; she explains what
an imaginary vision is, and speaks of the powerful effects it
leaves and the signs whether it is from God. This chapter is
most profitable and noteworthy.

Chapter XXIX.--She continues and tells of some great mercies God
showed her, and what His Majesty said to her in order to assure
her (of the truth of these visions), and taught her how to
answer contradictors.

Chapter XXX.--She continues the history of her life, and how God
sent her a remedy for all her anxieties by calling the holy Friar
Fray Pedro de Alcantara of the Order of the glorious St. Francis
to the place where she lived. She mentions some great
temptations and interior trials through which she sometimes had
to pass.

Chapter XXXI.--She speaks of some exterior temptations and
apparitions of Satan, and how he ill-treated her. She mentions,
moreover, some very good things by way of advice to persons who
are walking on the way of perfection.

Chapter XXXII.--She narrates how it pleased God to put her in
spirit in that place of Hell she had deserved by her sins.
She tells a little [6] of what she saw there compared with what
there was besides. She begins to speak of the manner and way
of founding the convent of St. Joseph where she now lives.

Chapter XXXIII.--She continues the subject of the foundation of
the glorious St. Joseph. How she was commanded to have nothing