the slightest degree.  The mark of the cross, and the wound on her right side, were often to be seen as before, but not at any stated times.  On certain days she always had the most painful sensations around her head, as though a crown of thorns were being pressed upon it.  On these occasions she could not lean her head against anything, nor even rest it on her hand, but had to remain for long hours, sometimes even for whole nights, sitting up in her bed, supported by cushions, whilst her pallid face, and the irrepressible groans of pain which escaped her, made her like an awful living representation of suffering.  After she had been in this state, blood invariably flowed more or less copiously from around her head.  Sometimes her head-dress only was soaked with it, but sometimes the blood would flow down her face and neck.  On Good Friday, April 19th, 1819, all her wounds re-opened and bled, and closed again on the following days.  A most rigorous inquiry into her state was made by some doctors and naturalists.  For that end she was placed alone in a strange house, where she remained from the 7th to the 29th of August; but this examination appears to have produced no particular effects in any way.  She was brought back to her own dwelling on the 29th of August, and from that time until she died she was left in peace, save that she was occasionally annoyed by private disputes and public insults.  On this subject Overberg wrote her the following words:  ’What have you had to suffer personally of which you can complain?  I am addressing a soul desirous of nothing so much as to become more and more like to her divine Spouse.  Have you not been treated far more gently than was your adorable Spouse?  Should it not be a subject of rejoicing to you, according to the spirit, to have been assisted to resemble him more closely, and thus to be more pleasing in his eyes?  You had suffered much with Jesus, but hitherto insults had been for the most part spared you.  With the crown of thorns you had not worn the purple mantle and the robe of scorn, much less had you yet heard, Away with him!  Crucify him!  Crucify him!  I cannot doubt but that these sentiments are yours.  Praise be to Jesus Christ.’

On Good Friday, the 30th of March 1820, blood flowed from her head, feet, hands, chest, and side.  It happened that when she fainted, one of the persons who were with her, knowing that the application of relics relieved her, placed near her feet a piece of linen in which some were wrapped, and the blood which came from her wounds reached this piece of linen after a time.  In the evening, when this same piece of linen with the relics was being placed on her chest and shoulders, in which she was suffering much, she suddenly exclaimed, while in a state of ecstasy:  ’It is most wonderful, but I see my Heavenly spouse lying in the tomb in the earthly Jerusalem; and I also see him living in the heavenly Jerusalem surrounded by adoring saints, and in the midst of these saints I see a person who is not a saint—­a nun.  Blood flows from her head, her side, her hands, and her feet, and the saints are above the bleeding parts.’