[21] Picture: Vita, p. 135a;. Red and black robes: 154b, 156c. Suggestions of odour: 118c, 119a; 9c, 8a, 9b. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. pp. 57, 58: “One day, I saw a picture of Christ most grievously wounded: the very sight of it moved me.” P. 247: “I used to pray much to Our Lord for that living water of which He spoke to the Samaritan woman: I had always a picture of it with this inscription: ‘Domine, da mihi aquam.’” P. 231: “Once when I was holding in my hand the cross of my rosary, He took it from me into His own hand. He returned it; but it was then four large stones incomparably more precious than diamonds: the five wounds were delineated on them with the most admirable art. He said to me that for the future that cross would appear so to me always, and so it did. The precious stones were seen, however, only by myself.”
[22] Synchronisms: Vita, pp. 148b; 150b; 152a, 160c, 161b. Communion and ordinary food: 154a, 154c, 138c; 154c. Heats: “Assalto,” e.g. 138b, c; 143a, c; “ferita” and “saetta,” e.g. 141a, c; 145a. Their localization: 135a, 141c; 153a; 142a, 158a. Their psycho-physical character: 135b, 144b. Thirst and its suggestion: 149c, 159c; 76c; 152b, 135a. Paralyses: 134b; 149c. Cf. St. Teresa, op. cit. p. 28: her death-swoon occurs on evening of the Assumption. P. 235: Heat, piercing of the heart as by a spear, and a spiritual (not bodily) pain, are all united in the experience of the heart-piercing Angel. P. 423: “Another prayer very common is a certain kind of wounding; for it really seems to the soul as if an arrow were thrust through the heart or through itself. The suffering is not one of sense, nor is the wound physical; it is in the interior of the soul.”
[23] Vita, pp. 158a; 160a. Cf. St. Teresa, op. cit. p. 41: “We saw something like a great toad crawling towards us.… The impression it made on me was such, that I think it must have had a meaning.” Contrast, with this naïvely sensible sight and the absence of all interior assurance, such a spiritual vision as “Christ stood before me, stern and grave. I saw Him with the eyes of the soul. The impression remained with me that the vision was from God, and not an imagination” (pp. 40, 41). Another quasi-sensible sight, with no interior assurance, or question as to its provenance and value, is given on pp. 248, 249: “Once Satan, in an abominable shape, appeared on my left hand. I looked at his mouth in particular, because he spoke, and it was horrible. A huge flame seemed to issue out of his body, perfectly bright without any shadow.” Another such impression is recorded on p. 252: “I thought the evil spirits would have suffocated me one night.… I saw a great troop of them rush away as if tumbling over a precipice.”
[24] Lives of the Saints, ed. 1898, Vol. X, September 15.
[25] Pierre Janet, Etat Mental des Hysteriques, 2 vols., Paris, 1892, 1894: Vol. II, pp. 260, 261; 280; Vol. I, pp. 225, 63.
[26] Ibid. Vol. I, pp. 63, 225, 226.
[27] Pierre Janet, Etat Mental, Vol. I, pp. 226, 227.
[28] Ibid. Vol. II, pp. 253, 257.
[29] Pierre Janet, Etat Mental, Vol. I, pp. 7, 8, 11, 12, 57, 21.
[30] Ibid. Vol. II, pp. 82, 91; 70, 71.