CHARLES WATEUTON, ESQ. 



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This day, November 1st, being the Festival of 

 All Saints, was unpropitious to our visit. We 

 could not have arrived at a more inconvenient time 

 for seeing Father Capistrani, to whom we had our 

 letter of introduction from the Baron of Botzen. 

 The whole of it till noon, was occupied in his 

 conventual duties : and he was engaged again, 

 after dinner, at vespers for the day's festival ; and 

 at other vespers again, a little later, for the follow- 

 ing day of All Souls. 



On account of these pressing duties, Father 

 Capistrani could not possibly be at liberty to 

 attend us, until a quarter before five o'clock in 

 the afternoon. 



By appointment then, it was arranged that we 

 should meet him, at that hour, in the church of 

 the convent, w T here resides Maria Mori, the Ecstatic 

 Virgin of the famed Tyrol. 



Father Capistrani is a monk of the Order of 

 St. Francis. His fine form and placid countenance 

 were wonderfully striking ; and they gave us an 

 assurance in advance, of our good fortune in having 

 an introduction to him. 



The convent where Maria Mori sojourns, is 

 about five minutes walk from his own, and a trifle 

 higher up in the mountain. We were already in 

 the church attached to it, when we saw the 



