came in and knelt down to pray. She was then holding in her hand a
lighted taper, which the priest was supporting. She breathed forth
several slight sighs, and then her pure soul escaped her chaste lips,
and hastened, clothed in the nuptial garment, to appear in heavenly
hope before the Divine Bridegroom, and be united for ever to that
blessed company of virgins who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
Her lifeless body sank gently back on the pillows at halfpast eight
o'clock p.m., on the 9th February 1824.

A person who had taken great interest in her during life wrote as
follows: 'After her death, I drew near to her bed. She was supported by
pillows, and lying on her left side. Some crutches, which had been
prepared for her by her friends on one occasion when she had been able
to take a few turns in the room, were hanging over her head, crossed,
in a corner. Near them hung a little oil painting representing the
death of the Blessed Virgin, which had been given her by the Princess
of Salm. The expression of her countenance was perfectly sublime, and
bore the traces of the spirit of self-sacrifice, the patience and
resignation of her whole life; she looked as though she had died for
the love of Jesus, in the very act of performing some work of charity
for others. Her right hand was resting on the counterpane--that hand on
which God had bestowed the unparalleled favour of being able at once to
recognise by the touch anything that was holy, or that had been
consecrated by the Church--a favour which perhaps no one had ever before
enjoyed to so great an extent-- a favour by which the interests of
religion might be inconceivably promoted, provided it was made use of
with discretion, and which surely had not been bestowed upon a poor
ignorant peasant girl merely for her own personal gratification. For
the last time I took in mine the hand marked with a sign so worthy of
our utmost veneration, the hand which was as a spiritual instrument in