ilst he was considering what her meaning could be, she appeared
to be asleep. At the end of about a quarter of an hour, she suddenly
started up with all the eagerness of a person having a violent struggle
with another, stretched out both her arms, clenching her hand, as if to
repel an enemy standing on the left side of her bed, and exclaimed in
an indignant voice: 'What do you mean by this contract of Magdalum?' Then
she continued to speak with the warmth of a person who is being
questioned during a quarrel--'Yes, it is that accursed spirit--the liar from
the beginning--Satan, who is reproaching him about the Magdalum contract,
and other things of the same nature, and says that he spent all that
money upon himself.' When asked, 'Who has spent money? Who is being spoken
to in that way?' she replied, 'Jesus, my adorable Spouse, on Mount Olivet.'
Then she again turned to the left, with menacing gestures, and
exclaimed, 'What meanest thou, O father of lies, with thy Magdalum
contract? Did he not deliver twenty-seven poor prisoners at Thirza,
with the money derived from the sale of Magdalum? I saw him, and thou
darest to say that he has brought confusion into the whole estate,
driven out its inhabitants, and squandered the money for which it was
sold? But thy time is come, accursed spirit! Thou wilt be chained, and
his heel will crush thy head.'

Here she was interrupted by the entrance of another person; her
friends thought that she was in delirium, and pitied her. The following
morning she owned that the previous night she had imagined herself to
be following our Saviour to the Garden of Olives, after the institution
of the Blessed Eucharist, but that just at that moment someone having
looked at the stigmas on her hands with a degree of veneration, she
felt so horrified at this being done in the presence of our Lord, that
she hastily hid them, with a feeling of pain. She then related her
vision of what took place in the Garden of Olives, and as she continued
her narrations the following days, the friend who was listening to her
was enabled to connect the different scenes of the Passion together.
But as, during Lent, she was also celebrating the combats of our Lord
with Satan in the desert, she had to endure in her own person many
sufferings and temptations. Hence there were a few pauses in the
history of the Passion, which were, however, easily filled up by means
of some later communications.

She usually spoke in common