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 She heard Mass, prayed longer than formerly and returned home at the hour of Vespers: those who then saw her extended on her bed could not have believed her capable of rising; on the morrow however, at the dawn of day, she arose, set out from her house, via del Papa, entered the Minerva and the Campo di Fiore, and went with a hasty step to St. Peter's; this course was capable of fatiguing any one in good health. Some days before she was called to Heaven, she found herself unable to rise; finally, on Sunday April 29, 1380, on the festival of St. Peter, martyr of the Order of Preaching Friars, about the hour of Tierce, she yielded her beautiful soul to its loving Spouse and Redeemer.

Many remarkable events transpired then, which I will narrate in the following chapters.