Letter (number unidentified). To Mother Mary Baptist, Prioress of Valladolid, Date and address uncertain.

The Saint assures her that her sister and father are in heaven.

... L was aware of her happy death in the evening: I believe that she did not go to Purgatory...

T assure you, my daughter, that I believe his soul had already left Purgatory when I heard of his decease. I saw it every day after I had received Holy Communion, and when the news of his death reached me in that distant spot, I knew that it must have been he who appeared to me...

at Clothing and Profession. The copy at the British Museum gives the date 1469. (Prior Zimmerman.)

"These fragments are taken from the deposition of Mary Baptist for the beatification, The death of Leonor de Cepeda must have taken place in the summer of 1571 or 1572. That of Diego de Cepeda was many years afterwards. Leonor was a nun of the Incarnation whom St. Teresa had trained from childhood in her own cell and who died while still young during the Saint’s priorate at that convent in the octave of Corpus Christi. By St. Teresa’s order, the Mass of the festival was substituted for the Requiem Mass, and the Procession bearing the Blessed Sacrament, which entered the enclosure, passed round the bier. The Saint saw angels helping the nuns to lift the coffin and lay it in the grave,