From her infancy she found sweet attractions to prayer, and was encouraged by a sensible devotion she then found in it. And her fidelity in these years to God, thus moving and encouraging her, was a means to draw down new blessings. At the age of seven years she began early to gain little victories over herself, and had the resolution and courage to quit her play that she might find time for her usual devotions. From this time she was carried on with great tenderness towards our Blessed Saviour's Passion, and not content to honour it alone, she strove to inspire these pious sentiments into others. But such is the weakness of man, after this she began to relent and lost in part that tenderness of devotion which she then felt, till Almighty God by a sudden glimpse of Divine light made her sensible of her failings. She was then about sixteen years of age. We may date from this moment the beginning of her sanctity. She cast herself upon her knees, begged with tears pardon of her past neglects, and began with inviolable fidelity from this moment to cultivate those seeds of devotion which God had so early cast into her soul.

By what I can gather from her own writings, from the testimony of those who were most intimate with her, and the knowledge I had myself of her, I have reason to believe she was never known after this to be guilty of any wilful fault, and was never wilfully negligent in corresponding with any light which she thought was imparted to her by Almighty God.