spots where my Son had suffered; and when one day my mind was absorbed in admiring contemplation of divine charity, my soul was filled therein with such exultation, that it could not contain itself, and in that very consideration, my soul was loosed from the body. But what magnificent things my soul then beheld; with what honor the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost then honored it, and by what a host of angels it was wafted up, thou canst not conceive, nor will I tell thee, before thy soul and body are severed, although I have shown thee some of all these things in that prayer which my Son inspires thee. Those who lived with me, when I gave up the ghost, knew well, from the unusual light, that divine things then took place in me. After this, the friends of my Son, divinely sent, interred my body in the valley of Josaphat; countless angels, like specks in sunlight, attending, but malignant spirits not daring to approach. For fifteen days my body lay buried in the earth; then, with a multitude of angels, it was assumed into heaven.
After my Son ascended to heaven, I lived in the world fifteen years, — the time from my Son’s ascension to my death. And when dead, I lay in the sepulchre three days; then
