Note 17 — Chapter IX · PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS

Exclamations: Vita, pp. 144a, 148b, 155a. Laughter: ibid. 145c, 148b, 149b, 157c. Sudden changes of condition: 135b, 138c, 159b. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. pp. 28, 29: “That very night,” Feast of the Assumption, 1537, “my sickness became so acute that, for about four days, I remained insensible. For a day and a half the grave was open, waiting for my body. But it pleased Our Lord I should come to myself. I wished to go to confession at once. Though my sufferings were unendurable, and my perceptions dull, yet my confession was, I believe, complete. I communicated with many tears.”