Almighty God was pleased to help one of the religious by my prayers, which I think fit to mention here. She was a very virtuous soul, but troubled with scruples to that degree that her confessor was afraid she would lose her senses; he told me as much to move me to pray for her. She had leave to have recourse to me whenever she pleased, and I spent a great deal of time in comforting her and animating her to obey and follow the advice of her confessor. I was afflicted to see this poor innocent soul suffer so much. Her confessor being obliged to absent himself for ten days to give the Spiritual Exercise to another monastery, called for her before he went, and, knowing the innocence of her life, ordered her before me to communicate, in his absence, with the rest of the religious on the days appointed, and he bade me put her in mind of his orders; but she would seldom obey him in this point. One day I met her in the morning by chance, a little before Mass, and made her a sign to come to me, which she seemed very loath to do, fearing, as she said afterwards, that I should be persuading her to communicate, which she was resolved not to do that day, and all I could say to her was then to little purpose.