triumphant band of the future blessed, and these two armies joining
together, and completing one another, so to speak, surrounded the
loving Heart of our Saviour as with a crown of victory. This most
affecting and consoling spectacle bestowed a degree of strength and
comfort upon the soul of Jesus. Ah! He so loved his brethren and
creatures that, to accomplish the redemption of one single soul, he
would have accepted with joy all the sufferings to which he was now
devoting himself. As these visions referred to the future, they were
diffused to a certain height in the air.

But these consoling visions faded away, and the angels displayed
before him the scenes of his Passion quite close to the earth, because
it was near at hand. I beheld every scene distinctly portrayed, from
the kiss of Judas to the last words of Jesus on the cross, and I saw in
this single vision all that I see in my meditations on the Passion. The
treason of Judas, the flight of the disciples, the insults which were
offered our Lord before Annas and Caiphas, Peter's denial, the tribunal
of Pilate, Herod's mockery, the scourging and crowning with thorns, the
condemnation to death, the carrying of the cross, the linen cloth
presented by Veronica, the crucifixion, the insults of the Pharisees,
the sorrows of Mary, of Magdalen, and of John, the wound of the lance
in his side, after death;--in one word, every part of the Passion was
shown to him in the minutest detail. He accepted all voluntarily,
submitting to everything for the love of man. He saw also and felt the
sufferings endured at that moment by his Mother, whose interior union
with his agony was so entire that she had fainted in the arms of her
two friends.

When the visions of the Passion were concluded, Jesus fell on his
face like one at the point of death; the angels disappeared, and the