APPENDIX

Summary

About two years after the death of Mother Mary Xaveria, the religious found it necessary to enlarge their burying-place, and being for this end supplied with money by Mr. Bond, a worthy gentleman, who has a daughter, religious in that monastery, with leave of my Lord Bishop they set men to work and took down an entire side of the vault, in which eleven or twelve religious had been buried; some had been buried five, six, ten, and twenty years ago, and one only ten weeks. Some were found entirely consumed, the last entirely corrupted. As they had a great veneration for Mother Mary Margaret of the Angels, who had been buried thirty-eight years and two months, they ordered the workmen not to disorder the bones, when they came to that grave, till some of the religious had viewed them, and accordingly that coffin was opened in the presence of three or four of the religious. They perceived when the top of the coffin was removed, something spread and drawn over the coffin and fastened to the edge, through which they discovered perfectly the body from head to foot. What covered it was like a thin tiffany, or gauze. They immediately gave notice of this to the rest of the religious. In the interim one of those present, being too eager to touch the body, broke through that which covered it. The Community was much surprised to find the body perfectly entire, fleshy, and formed.