As they stood warming themselves they discoursed of the pestilential incursions of the devil, when suddenly the performance was repeated.

They were all bespattered with filth, Christina being caked with it, to use the Friar's expression; and 'strange to say,' adds Peter of Dacia, 'this matter, which was but warm, burned Christina, raising blisters on her skin.' "This continued for three days.

At length, one evening, Friar Wipert, quite exasperated, began to recite the prayers for exorcism; but a terrific uproar shook the room, the candles went out, and he was hit in the eye by something so hard that he exclaimed, 'Woe is me! I am blind of an eye!' "He was led, feeling his way, into an adjoining room, where the garments they changed were dried, and where water was constantly heated for their ablutions; he was cleansed, and his eye washed.

It had suffered no serious injury, and he returned to the other room to say Matins with the two Benedictines and Peter of Dacia.

But before chanting the service he went up to the patient's bed and clasped his hands in amazement.
"She was covered with filth indeed, but all was changed.