The lives of the saints . hown me Hiswounds as He hung on the cross or was in the garden. Afew times He has appeared with His crown of thorns, and atother times carrying His cross. These happened, as I havesaid, only when I was in trouble, either on my own account,or for some other persons : but our Lord generally appeared in His glorified flesh One day when I was holding the cross in my hand, which was at the end of my rosary,He took it into His hand, and when He returned it to me, itconsisted of four great stones, incomparably more preciousthan diamonds. They had on them the five wounds in a
The lives of the saints . hown me Hiswounds as He hung on the cross or was in the garden. Afew times He has appeared with His crown of thorns, and atother times carrying His cross. These happened, as I havesaid, only when I was in trouble, either on my own account,or for some other persons : but our Lord generally appeared in His glorified flesh One day when I was holding the cross in my hand, which was at the end of my rosary,He took it into His hand, and when He returned it to me, itconsisted of four great stones, incomparably more preciousthan diamonds. They had on them the five wounds in amost curious manner. And our Lord told me that I shouldsee Him just in that way thenceforth, and so I did: andthen I no longer saw the material of which the cross wasmade, but only those precious stones. None saw them butmyself.^ She gives a beautiful description of the appearanceof the light of the resurrection body. It is, she says, different from that of this world. It is as if one saw ^ Autobiog. u. 29. >^-. ^ u^ 1* - ^. , ^ ? » -XT
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