P 123.  ‘All worldly goods.’  A paraphrase of her own words.

P 124.  ‘Thine own needs.’  But when she was going to renounce her possessions also, the prudent Conrad stopped her.  The reflections which follow are Dietrich’s own.

P 125.  ‘The likeness of the fiend’ etc.  I have put this daring expression into Conrad’s mouth, as the ideal outcome of the teaching of Conrad’s age on this point—­and of much teaching also which miscalls itself Protestant, in our own age.  The doctrine is not, of course, to be found totidem verbis in the formularies of any sect—­ yet almost all sects preach it, and quote Scripture for it as boldly as Conrad—­the Romish Saint alone carries it honestly out into practice.

P 126.  ‘With pine boughs.’  Cf.  Lib.  VI. section 2.  ’Entering a certain desolate court she betook herself, “sub gradu cujusdam caminatae,” to the projection of a certain furnace, where she roofed herself in with boughs.  In the meantime in the town of Marpurg, was built for her a humble cottage of clay and timber.’

Ibid.  ‘Count Pama.’  Cf.  Lib.  VI. section 6.

P 127.  ‘Isentrudis and Guta.’  Cf.  Lib.  VII. section 4.  ’Now Conrad as a prudent man, perceiving that this disciple of Christ wished to arrive at the highest pitch of perfection, studied to remove all which he thought would retard her, and therefore drove from her all those of her former household in whom she used to solace or delight herself.  Thus the holy priest deprived this servant of God of all society, that so the constancy of her obedience might become known, and occasion might be given to her for clinging to God alone.’

P 128.  ‘A leprous boy.’  Cf.  Lib.  VI. section 8.

She had several of these proteges, successively, whose diseases are too disgusting to be specified, on whom she lavished the most menial cares.  All the other stories of her benevolence which occur in these two pages are related by Dietrich.

Ibid.  ‘Mighty to save.’  Cf.  Lib.  VII. section 7.  When we read amongst other matters, how the objects of her prayers used to become while she was speaking so intensely hot, that they not only smoked, and nearly melted, but burnt the fingers of those who touched them:  from whence Dietrich bids us ’learn with what an ardour of charity she used to burn, who would dry up with her heat the flow of worldly desire, and inflame to the love of eternity.’

P 130.  ‘Lands and titles’.  Cf.  Lib.  V. section 7,8.

P 131.  ‘Spinning wool.’  Cf.  Lib.  VI. section 6.  ’And crossing himself for wonder, the Count Pama cried out and said, “Was it ever seen to this day that a king’s daughter should spin wool?” All his messages from her father (says Dietrich) were of no avail.

P 135.  ‘To do her penance.’  Cf.  Lib.  VII. section 4.  ’Now he had placed with her certain austere women, from whom she endured much oppression patiently for Christ’s sake who, watching her rigidly, frequently reported her to her master for having transgressed her obedience in giving some thing to the poor, or begging others to give.  And when thus accused she often received many blows from her master, insomuch that he used to strike her in the face, which she earnestly desired to endure patiently in memory of the stripes of the Lord.’