“When they had arrived there she did not alight at her lodgings, but
went straight to the church, which she at once entered, saying to
those about her, that her heart told her I know not what concerning her
daughter’s fate, and affectionately begging them all to withdraw and
leave her alone for an hour in the church. All obeyed and in great
uneasiness waited for their mistress at the church door; the Sénéchale
de Poitou,(1) a very faithful lady, and very solicitous about Margaret,
alone entering with her. Margaret having gone in, kneels down before
the image of Jesus crucified, prays to God from the depths of her heart,
sighs, weeps, confesses all her transgressions, and laying to herself
alone the cause of her daughter’s illness, humbly asks pardon, and begs
that the sufferer’s restoration to health may be granted. After this
act of faith Margaret felt relieved, and she had scarcely arrived at
her lodgings when the Bishop of Mende came to announce to her that her
daughter was in the way of recovery.” (2)