The following fragment will give some idea of the mysterious symbolism by which she was interiorly directed.  During a portion of the year 1820 she performed many labours in spirit, for several different parishes; her prayers being represented under the figure of most severe labour in a vineyard.  What we have above related concerning the nettles is of the same character.

On the 6th of September her heavenly guide said to her:  ’ “You weeded, dug around, tied, and pruned the vine; you ground down the weeds so that they could never spring up anymore; and then you went away joyfully and rested from your prayers.  Prepare now to labour hard from the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin to that of St. Michael; the grapes are ripening and must be well watched.”  Then he led me,’ she continued, ’to the vineyard of St. Liboire, and showed me the vines at which I had worked.  My labour had been successful, for the grapes were getting their colour and growing large, and in some parts the red juice was running down on the ground from them.  My guide said to me:  “When the virtues of the good begin to shine forth in public, they have to combat bravely, to be oppressed, to be tempted, and to suffer persecution.  A hedge must be planted around the vineyard in order that the ripe grapes may not be destroyed by thieves and wild beasts, i.e. by temptation and persecution.”  He then showed me how to build a wall by heaping up stones, and to raise a thick hedge of thorns all around.  As my hands bled from such severe labour, God, in order to give me strength, permitted me to see the mysterious signification of the vine, and of several other fruit trees.  Jesus Christ is the true Vine, who is to take root and grow in us; all useless wood must be cut away, in order not to waste the sap, which is to become the wine, and in the Most Blessed Sacrament the Blood of Christ.  The pruning of the vine has to be done according to certain rules which were made known to me.  This pruning is, in a spiritual sense, the cutting off whatever is useless, penance and mortification, that so the true Vine may grow in us, and bring forth fruit, in the place of corrupt nature, which only bears wood and leaves.  The pruning is done according to fixed rules, for it is only required that certain useless shoots should be cut off in man, and to lop off more would be to mutilate in a guilty manner.  No pruning should ever be done upon the stock which has been planted in humankind through the Blessed Virgin, and is to remain in it for ever.  The true Vine unites heaven to earth, the Divinity to humanity; and it is the human part that is to be pruned, that so the divine alone may grow.  I saw so many other things relating to the vine that a book as large as the Bible could not contain them.  One day, when I was suffering acute pain in my chest, I besought our Lord with groans not to give me a burthen above my strength to bear; and then my Heavenly Spouse appeared, and said to