Her superiors had indeed taken measures to commit to writing the account of her extraordinary states, her visions and revelations for the benefit of posterity, but their efiorts' to produce the effects they desired were frustrated, as will be seen in the subsequent history. The Lord, however, has so ordered it that we possess exact and appropriate information of the virtues and exercises by the practice of which, as a child, as a young maiden, and as a religious, she became a mirror of perfection and a complete model for imitation.