[5]. See [ch. xxiii].

[6]. [§ 6].

[7]. [§ 9].

[8]. [Ch. iv. § 6].

[9]. Job ii. 10: "Si bona suscepimus de manu Dei, mala quare non suscipiamus?"

[10]. Some of the nuns of the Incarnation were in the house, sent thither from the monastery; and, but for the father's disbelief in her death, would have taken her home for burial (Ribera, lib. i. ch. iv.).

[11]. Ribera, lib. i. ch. iv., says he heard Fra Bañes, in a sermon, say that the Saint told him she had, during these four days, seen hell in a vision. And the chronicler says that though there was bodily illness, yet it was a trance of the soul at the same time (vol. i. lib. i. ch. xii. § 3).


[Chapter VI.]

The Great Debt She Owed to Our Lord for His Mercy to Her. She Takes St. Joseph for Her Patron.