I always observed and admired in the Reverend Mother Mary Xaveria an unalterable, quiet, sedate temper, which could not be said to proceed from stupidity or insensibility : she was rather, from an infant, of a high spirit, a good wit, and solid judgment. By an admirable effect of Divine grace she was so perfectly mistress of her own passions, that you could never observe the least sign of any irregular motion. I have reason to believe, both by what I know of her and by what may be gathered out of her writings, that she passed at least the twenty years she was in religion in almost a continual practice of the presence of God, in a continual conformity with the will of God, with as deep recollection even in exterior employs as most people arrive at in meditation or prayer. This Divine peace of God was fixed and settled in her soul, the night before her first miraculous cure, as has been observed elsewhere, and we may reasonably look upon it as the fruits of her long and painful sufferings, and as the crown of her heroical courage and unwearied patience. As she was born to a spiritual life by sufferings and crosses, she maintained herself in it by the same nourishment.