“If God commanded, it was right to obey. If God commanded it, had I had a hundred fathers and mothers, and had I been a king’s daughter, I should have gone.”
“Did you ask your Voices if you should announce your departure to your father and mother?”
“As to my father and mother, my Voices would have been quite willing I should tell them, had it not been for the trouble I should have caused them in speaking of this. As for myself, I would not have told them at any price. My Voices agreed that I might either speak to my father and mother or be silent.”
“Did you do reverence to Saint Michael and the Angels when you saw them?”
“Yes; and, after they were gone I kissed the earth where they had been.”
“Were they long with you?”
“Very often they came among the faithful [i.e., in church] without being seen; and often I saw them among the faithful.”
“Had you had any letters from Saint Michael or from your Voices?”
“I have not permission to tell you. Eight days from this, I will tell you willingly what I know.”
“Did not your Voices call you ‘Daughter of God, daughter of the Church, great-hearted daughter’?”