...and led her thru a dark passage to a field of sunshine. “In eternity, dear child,” he said. “Here, you must suffer darkness so that you may one day behold eternal light.” Waking, she discerned she was not meant to recover her sight, but that her life was no less meaningful...

...for her disability. She asked to be enclosed as an anchoress in a cell attached to the church in Pavia to devote herself to prayer. Thus, at 15 she entered the cell where she would remain alone for the next 65 yrs. In electing solitude she didn’t turn her back on humanity.