[3]. [Ch. xxxiii.]; the foundation of the house of St. Joseph.

[4]. [Ch. xxv. § 23].

[5]. The Bollandists, n. 185, attribute some of the severity with which her confessor treated the Saint to the spirit of desolation with which he was then tried himself; and, in proof of it, refer to the account which F. Baltasar Alvarez gave of his own prayer to the General of the Society.

[6]. See [Relation, vii. § 7].

[7]. St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch. 22, § 14.

[8]. The visions of the Saint began in 1558 (De la Fuente) or, according to Father Bouix, in 1559.

[9]. St. Luke xvi. 28: "Ne et ipsi veniant in hunc locum tormentorum."


[Chapter XXVII.]

The Saint Prays to Be Directed by a Different Way. Intellectual Visions.