We can imagine the Prior's gratitude to the young cardinal for that timely word when he saw himself in danger perhaps of being called to account for fostering and abetting an imposture.
What was Alexander's opinion of her in the end we do not know; but we do know that he was not readily credulous.

When, for instance, he heard that the stigmata were alleged to have appeared upon the body of Lucia di Narni he did what might be expected of a sceptic of our own times rather than of a churchman of his superstitious age--he sent his physicians to examine her.
That is but one instance of his common-sense attitude towards supernatural manifestations.

His cold, calm judgement caused him to seek, by all available and practical means, to discriminate between the true and the spurious in an age in which men, by their credulity, were but too ready to become the prey of any impostor.

It argues a breadth of mind altogether beyond the times in which he had his being.

Witches and warlocks, who elsewhere--and even in much later ages, and in Protestant as well as Catholic States--were given to the fire, he contemptuously ignored.