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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 



Having asked Father Capistrani if she took 

 ordinary sustenance, he replied that she scarcely 

 took any at all : a very few grapes in the season, 

 an apple or so, — a piece of bread not larger than 

 your finger, was all she would -eat, — and these, 

 added he, at long intervals from each other. But 

 this, he considered, with a little water, was by no 

 means enough to support health in the common 

 course of nature. 



This Ecstatic Virgin of the Tyrol has now been 

 eleven years the admiration of these romantic 

 regions far and near : but not all the time at 

 this particular convent. Whilst her father and 

 mother were alive she stayed with them ; but, at 

 their death, she was invited to her present abode 

 of peace and piety, for very obvious reasons. 



On the day of our visit to the convent we found 

 the Ecstatica dressed in a white robe, tied close 

 round her waist by a slender cord, and nothing 

 more. Her confessor assured us that she had 

 the holy wounds of our Saviour's crucifixion on 

 her feet, as well as on her hands. However, 

 being perfectly satisfied with his word, I should 

 have considered it neither proper nor decorous in 

 me, to have requested the favor of an inspection. 

 Indeed it was by no means to be wished for in 

 the present conjuncture, as I had already inspected 



