[275]. Vida, cap. xxix., p. 209.
[276]. Vida, cap. xxxii.
[277]. Ibid., cap. xxxi.
[278]. Vida, pp. 198, 301, 209, 321. This last communication is not related by herself: we have it on the authority of Ribadeneira:—Itidem ei rursus apparens dixit: Cœlum nisi creassem, ob te solam crearem.—Vita Teresiæ, p. 41.
[279]. Originally:
Mas causa en mi tal passion
Ver à Dios mi prisionero
Que muero porque no muero.
[280]. Vida, cap. xl. p. 324.
[281]. The biographers of the saints differ both as to the time of her death (1308, 1299, 1393, are dates assigned), and as to the number and nature of the miraculous formations discovered within her heart. Ribadeneira’s account is by no means the most extravagant. He says:—Aperto ejus corde amplo et concavo, eidem repererunt impressa Dominicæ passionis insignia, nempe crucifixum cum tribus clavis, lancea, spongia, et arundine hinc, et illinic flagris, virgis, columna, corona spinea; atque hæc insignia Dominicæ Passionis, nervis validis durisque constabant.—Vida S. Claræ, p. 161.