detached from self, that so she may escape unharmed."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
To help a novice to accept a humiliation
she said to her in confidence:
"If I had not been received into Carmel
I would have entered a Refuge, to live
there unknown and despised in the
midst of the poor penitents. To pass
for such in the eyes of all would have
been my happiness. I should have been
the apostle of my companions telling
them what I think of the Mercy of the
good God."
"But how would you have been able to hide your innocence from your Confessor?"
"I would have told him that while in the world I had made a general confession and had been forbidden to do so again."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
One day they brought her some ears
of corn. She took one so laden with
