This event was reported to the convent.

With whatever reluctance, I could not refuse my testimony to its truth, and its influence on my faith was clearly shewn in my subsequent conduct.
A lady of rank, in Seville, who had been guilty of many unauthorized indulgences, was, at last, awakened to remorse, by a voice from Heaven, which she imagined had commanded her to expiate her sins by an abstinence from all food for thirty days.

Her friends found it impossible to outroot this persuasion, or to overcome her resolution even by force.

I chanced to be one in a numerous company where she was present.

This fatal illusion was mentioned, and an opportunity afforded to the lady of defending her scheme.