In this convent lived a little boy named Aesica, not more than three years old, who, being so young, was being brought up and taught his lessons in the cell of these virgins vowed to God. Attacked by the plague and about to die, he three times called the name of one of Christ’s virgins as though she were present, saying: ‘Edith! Edith! Edith!’ Then he left this present world, and passed to eternal life. The nun whose name he had called with his dying breath was at once stricken where she was by the same disease, and departed this life, following the child who had called her to the kingdom of heaven.
Again, one of the handmaids of God was brought to her last hour by this disease, and in the middle of the night she began to call to those who attended her to put out the lamp that burned by her bed. But in spite of her repeated requests, none of them paid any attention. At length she said: ‘I know that you think that my mind is wandering, but I assure you that it is not so. I tell you truthfully that I see the house filled with such brilliant light that your lamp appears to me only as darkness.’ And when they still disregarded her request and made no reply, she said again: ‘Let the lamp burn as long as you wish; but I assure you that it gives me no light. My light will come to me when dawn draws near.’ She then told them how a man of God, who had died the same year, had appeared to her and informed her that at daybreak she would depart to eternal light. The reality of this vision was quickly confirmed; for the nun died at dawn.