January 21st — -" Lambert's improved condition continues, whilst Sister Emmerich evidently grows worse. She had herself carried to his room and, in spite of her cough, had a long talk with him. St. Agnes appeared to her, consoled and exhorted her to suffer, for no pain is lost."
1 月21日——「兰伯特的病情继续好转，而艾曼丽修女的情况明显恶化了。她叫人把自己抬到神父的房间里，尽管咳嗽着，还是同他谈了很久。圣女依搦斯显现在艾曼丽修女面前，安慰和劝勉她忍受痛苦，因为痛苦是不会离开她的。」
January 24th — " Sister Emmerich's cough and oppression have so increased that she cannot speak ; she seems to be strangling. The confessor prayed over her. He laid his folded stole on her throat and breast, when she instantly fell into ecstasy, her face beaming and luminous, full of devotion, and innocent as a little child's. As often as the confessor made the sign of the cross over her, she took the posture of a devout worshipper in church, crossing himself at the blessing.
1月24日——「艾曼丽修女的咳嗽和胸闷越来越严重，以至于她说不出话来，她几乎要窒息了。告解神师为她祈祷。他将折叠好的圣带放在她的喉咙和胸上，这时她立即陷入神魂超拔中，她的脸容光焕发，充满了虔诚，天真地像个小孩子。每当告解神师在她头上划十字圣号祝福她的时候，她就摆出在教堂里虔诚跪拜的姿势，在神父祝福时划十字圣号。
Though perfectly rigid, she assumed this attitude each time the sign of the cross was made. When an action ceases in this state, the hand often remains immovable where the act ended ; for example, if making the sign of the cross, the hand sometimes remains resting on the right shoulder, but if the devotion continues, then the hands are laid one in the other, the fingers never clasped. When the blessing ended, she fell back gently on her bed, obeying in that movement a spiritual rather than a physical law. Attracted by the stole and the priest's hands, she moved toward the latter, until some one replaced her in her proper position when she became calmer and easier."
虽然她的身体非常僵硬，但每次划十字圣号时，她都会保持这种姿势。当一个动作在僵硬状态下停止时，她的手通常会停留在动作结束的地方；例如，在画十字圣号时，她的手有时就停在右肩上，但如果继续虔诚祈祷，那么她就双手合十，但双手手指从不紧握（见图示）。当祝福结束时，她轻轻地躺在床上，在这一动作中，她遵从的是精神而不是肉体的法则。而她被神父的圣带和手所吸引，总是不知不觉跟随神父的手移动，直到有人帮她回到她应有的位置，她才平静、轻松下来。」
Although Sister Emmerich, in the midst of her trials and sufferings, interrupted not the recital of her visions, yet we still find such words as the following in the Pilgrim's journal : “The greater part of these immense graces is going to waste, no importance is attached to them, etc.! It was to some such exclamation, we may imagine, that the invalid quietly replied : " Yes, that is what my Spouse told me last night when I complained to Him of my wants and misery, of my seeing so many unintelligible things, etc.
尽管艾曼丽修女在她的磨难和痛苦中从没有中断重述她的异象，但我们仍然在朝圣者的日记中找到这样的话：「这些巨大的恩宠大部分都将浪费掉，因神视异象不被人们重视，等等！」我们就可以想象，病人听到如此的感叹后，平静地回答说：「是的，昨晚我向主抱怨我的需要和痛苦，抱怨我看到的这么多难以理解的事情等等时，我的净配是这么对我说的。」
He replied: 'I give thee visions, but not for thyself. Thou must communicate them that they may be committed to writing.' He added that this is not the time for miracles ; therefore He gives visions, to prove that He is with His Church till the consummation of ages. But visions save no one. Charity, patience, and the other virtues insure salvation ! Then He showed me a whole row of saints who had had visions of different kinds, but who attained beatitude only by the good use they made of them.' "
主回答说：「我给你异象，不是为了你自己。你必须传达它们，以便写成文字记录下来。主补充说，现在不是行神迹的时候；因此，祂赐下异象，为要证明主与教会同在，直到时代的终结。但异象拯救不了任何人。爱德、忍耐和其他圣德是得救的保证！然后祂又指给我看了一整队圣人，他们都曾有过不同的异象，但都是通过善用异象才获得永恒的幸福的。」
February 6th — “She is in a pitiable state, her suffering and inquietude increasing with the increasing weakness of the Abbe, She wanted to be taken to his room this evening, but she was not gratified. The Pilgrim found her almost unable to speak from weakness."
2月6日——「她的处境很可怜，随着兰伯特神父的日益虚弱，她的痛苦和不安也在增加，她今晚想被带到神父的房间里去，但她沒能满足这个愿望。朝圣者发现她虚弱得几乎说不出话来。」
February 7th, 1821. — " Lambert died this morning at a quarter after ten" Such are the words that record the death of this faithful friend of Sister Emmerich, and we cannot but regret their brevity on an occasion so painful to her. The obsequies of the Abbe Lambert were performed on the morning of February 9th.
1821 年2月7日——「兰伯特神父于今天上午十点一刻逝世」，这简短的文字记录了艾曼丽修女忠实朋友的死讯，在她如此痛苦的时刻，我们不得不为如此简短的讣告感到遗憾。兰伯特神父的葬礼于2月9日上午举行。
The former Superioress of the Augustinians, Mother Hackebram, purposed remaining with Sister Emmerich during the ceremony. She it was who had received the good Abbe as chaplain to the convent, thus giving rise to the spiritual tie which afterward bound him so closely to their common child, the favored stigmatisee, who ever regarded the good lady as her revered Superioress and Mother. The journal tells us : —
奥斯定会的前任女院长哈克布拉姆院长姆姆打算在葬礼期间留在艾曼丽修女身边。正是她接受了这位善良的兰伯特神父担任修道院的本堂，从而产生了属灵纽带，将神父与他们修道院共同的属灵孩子，受宠的印五伤者，如此紧密地联系在一起，艾曼丽修女一直将这位善良的女士当作她尊敬的女院长和母亲。日记告诉我们：——
“Whilst the funeral of the Abbe was taking place, the Pilgrim found the former Superioress by Sister Emmerich's bedside. Fearing her presence might incommode the invalid, he persuaded her to withdraw to the adjoining room, where he sat and entertained her. She is a good, simple- hearted person. Through the open doorway he could see the invalid.
「在举行神父的葬礼时，朝圣者在艾曼丽修女的床边见到了前女修道院院长。由于担心她的出现可能会使病人感到不适，他劝院长姆姆退到隔壁的房间里去，他坐在那里招待她。她是一位善良、朴实的人。透过敞开的门缝，朝圣者可以看到病人。
As he gazed, she suddenly became rigid, her hands joined, her face expressive of fervent piety, the blood trickling from under her forehead-binder. ' It comes from the plain chant!’ she exclaimed. 'We are sitting as we used to do, facing choir and choir.' — And later, she said : ‘I had made the Way of the Cross, and I met the funeral near the churchyard. I saw many souls accompanying the procession, one of whom had a lighted taper.
当他注视着艾曼丽时，她突然僵住了，双手合十，脸上流露出虔诚的表情，血从她的额头下面滴落下来。『它来自单声部咏调！』她惊呼道。『我们像以前一样坐着，面对着一个又一个的歌咏团。』——后来，她又说：『我拜了苦路，在教堂墓地附近遇到了葬礼。我看到许多灵魂伴随着游行队伍，其中一人还点燃了火把。
I assisted at the services and joined with great effort in the Office. I now see the Abbe in a celestial garden with other priests and souls like himself. In it are things corresponding to the pure root, to the spirit of their inclinations here below, without earthly admixture or deformity. I saw by him at his last hour St. Martin and St. Barbara, whose assistance I had invoked."
我在礼仪事奉中提供了协助，尽心尽力参与了日课仪式中所唱的内容。现在我看到兰伯特神父和其他神父以及和他一样的灵魂一起在天堂般的花园里。园中的一切事物都与他们纯洁的根源、与他们在世时的精神倾向相互一致，但没有世俗的任何掺杂。在兰伯特神父弥留之际，我看到了圣马丁和圣芭芭拉，我曾呼求这二位圣人的帮助。」
Thus did Sister Emmerich perfectly fulfil the task announced to her by Sts. Augustine and Ignatius, thus had she prepared her worthy friend for a peaceful, blessed death ! How admirable are the ways of God ! The Abbe Lambert had been called from the heart of France to be the guardian of the soul who, perhaps, more than any other of her age, struggled and suffered for the most precious treasure of mankind, the Christian faith.
就这样，艾曼丽修女完美地完成了圣奥斯定和圣依纳爵向她宣布的任务。就这样，她为她可敬的朋友准备好了安详而幸福的死亡！天主的道路是多么令人钦佩！兰伯特神父从法国的心脏地带被召唤来，成为一个灵魂的守护者，而这个灵魂(指艾曼丽),也许比她那个时代的任何一个人，都更懂得为人类最宝贵的财富–基督教的信仰–而奋斗和受苦。
Who was more worthy to stand by her side than the generous confessor who preferred exile and poverty to the betrayal of the Church ? From the very first, he had divined the mystery of Sister Emmerich's life and hence his great desire to conceal its treasures as well from herself as from the world at large. What must not the noble old man have suffered when he beheld her suspected, maltreated, branded as an impostor ?
还有谁比这位宁愿流亡和贫困也不愿背叛教会的慷慨的告解神父更配得站在艾曼丽修女这一边呢？从一开始，他就洞悉了艾曼丽修女的生命奥秘，因此他极力想要向世人和艾曼丽修女本人隐瞒其中的秘密。当这位高贵的老人看到她被怀疑、被虐待、被贴上骗子的标签时，他该是怎样的痛苦啊？
What must have been his feelings to hear himself denounced as the author of those mysterious marks, declared guilty by the Illuminati " of having made her wounds by artificial means, of having bound his victim to lifelong secrecy by most terrible oaths?” Did his enemies believe their own calumnies? This will be known only on the Judgment Day. Of one thing we are certain, the names of Lambert and Limberg will be pronounced with respect as long as the memory of Sister Emmerich shall be held in love and veneration by the faithful.
当他听到自己被指责为那些神秘印记的制造者，被“光明会”宣布有罪，「以人为手段制造了艾曼丽的伤口，以最可怕的誓言迫使他的受害者终身保密，等等」他的心情会是怎样的呢？他的敌人相信自己的诽谤吗？这只有在审判日才能知道。有一件事我们可以肯定，只要信徒们怀着对艾曼丽修女的爱戴和恭敬之情，兰伯特神父和林堡神父的名字就会被尊重和铭记。
On February 8th, Friday before Sexagesima, Sister Emmerich was shown in vision her task for the coming Lent. "My Celestial Spouse has clothed me in a new black garment all strewn with little crosses. He presented the in one by one, asking me so sweetly if I would accept them. 'For,’ said He, 'there are so few willing to suffer; and yet, so much sin to expiate, so many souls to be saved !’ — Then I silently took all the crosses. I was told that I should wear the robe for ten weeks and that it would become a help to me. I was also told that the want of intelligence in those around me respecting my state, is alone sufficient to cause my death; but I must suffer all patiently."
2 月8日，四旬期前第二主日之前的星期五，艾曼丽修女在异象中看到了她即将到来的四旬期的任务。「我天上的净配给我穿上了一件新的黑衣，上面布满了小小的十字架。祂一个一个地递给我，亲切地问我愿不愿意接受。『因为，』祂说，『愿意受苦的人太少了；然而，要赎的罪这么多，要拯救的灵魂这么多！』——然后我默默地接过了所有的十字架。有人告诉我，我应该穿这件黑衣十周，它会对我有帮助。我还被告知，我周围的人对我的病况缺乏了解，这一点足以导致我的死亡；但我必须耐心地承受这一切。」
The fulfilment of the preceding vision was not long delayed. Hardly was the Abbe buried when Sister Emmerich was amazed by the demand of Christian Brentano to change her lodgings and dismiss her sister Gertrude. The Abbe being no more, Christian Brentano thought the chief, if not the only obstacle to his cherished scheme was now removed.
前一个异象的实现并没有拖延太久。兰伯特神父刚刚下葬，艾曼丽修女就被朝圣者的兄弟克里斯蒂安·布伦塔诺提出的要求吓了一跳，他要求艾曼丽修女更换住处并解雇她的妹妹格特鲁德。他认为，兰伯特神父已经不在了，他所珍视的计划的主要障碍，甚至是唯一障碍，现在已经解除了。
He and the Pilgrim were so sure of success that the latter enters into his journal the following lines : "Everything is arranged for the invalid's removal, a lodging hired at the house of the school-master, and measures agreed upon with Dean Rensing and the burgomaster. All is ready !" — But now arose opposition in another quarter as we see by the words : " The confessor will come to no decision, although he can give no good reason for thwarting the plan.
他和朝圣者对成功非常有把握，朝圣者在他的日记中写道：「一切都已安排妥当，病人可以搬走了，我们在校长家里租了一个房子，并与伦辛院长和市长商定了措施。一切准备就绪！」——但现在，又出现了反对意见，正如我们看到的那样：「告解神师不会做出任何决定，尽管他无法给出充分的理由来阻挠这个计划。
At last, he resolves to apply to Dean Overberg, wants to go himself to Minister to take advice where never yet has advice been given. Sister Emmerich declares her inability to act without her confessor's cooperation. Things are in horrible confusion! The whole affair is tiresome, perplexing, incomprehensible !"
最后，布伦塔诺决定向奥弗伯格院长提出申请，想亲自去明斯特那里听取从未有人给过的建议。艾曼丽修女宣称。没有她的告解神师的合作，她无法采取行动。事情陷入了可怕的混乱中！朝圣者认为，整个事件令人厌烦、令人困惑、令人费解！」
Sister Emmerich seeing the storm gathering around her felt the necessity of coming to some decision and, on Sexagesima Sunday, having received strength in Holy Communion, she resolved to have an explanation with the two brothers, Christian and Clement Brentano, the latter of whom reports : “She has communicated ; she is strengthened and full of serenity.
艾曼丽修女看到周围的风暴正在聚集，她觉得有必要做出决定，在四旬期第二主日，她在圣体圣事中获得了力量，她决定对克里斯蒂安和克里斯蒂安-布伦塔诺两兄弟解释自已的观点，朝圣者如此写道 ：「她已经领过圣体； 她变得坚强，充满了宁静。
Past sufferings seem to her as nothing ; for, however miserable her physical condition may be, she is all day long in ecstasy. Her increase of strength to-day is a magical effect of Christ's presence within her ! My brother Christian visited her in the afternoon ; the Pilgrim followed him later. She was full of peace, mild, and kind. She made some remarks about certain things which she had to endure and of which complaints have already been made to her. But they were mere trifles, things for which we could make no satisfaction, as they were wholly without foundation.
过去的苦难对她来说似乎不算什么；因为无论她的身体状况多么悲惨，她整天都沉浸在神魂超拔之中。她今天体力的增强是圣体内的耶稣与她同在的神奇效果！我弟弟克里斯蒂安下午去看望了她；朝圣者随后也去了。她充满了平静、温和、和蔼。她对某些她不得不忍受的事情发表了一些评论，而且已经有人向她抱怨过了。我们无法妥善处理，因为这些鸡毛蒜皮的小事都是毫无根据的。
She said, for instance : ‘When the Pilgrim is here, he sends visitors away under the pretext that I am asleep, and many are vexed by it. My own relations complain that he prevents their seeing me, and even my good brother says he was sent away by him. The Abbe Lambert told the confessor how hard it was to put up with the Pilgrim. He is like a spy, he watches everything that goes on.' This must have been one of Lambert's last temptations !
例如，她说：『当朝圣者在这里时，他会以我睡着了为借口把来访者打发走，许多人因此而烦恼。我自己的亲戚抱怨他不让他们见我，甚至我的好兄弟也说他是被他打发走的。兰伯特神父告诉告解神师，要忍受朝圣者有多么难。他就像一个间谍，监视着发生的一切。』这一定是兰伯特神父最后的诱惑之一！
It was, however, very humiliating to the Pilgrim to hear such things. Unfortunately, he cannot with truth promise amendment, though the invalid thinks all might be easily rectified. The confessor also had a word to say to the same effect, but he was very friendly, very kind and affable." The Pilgrim, however, despite the gentle remonstrance of the invalid and her confessor, seems to have insisted on a change of residence, as we may glean from the following entry in his journal: —
然而，听到这样的话，朝圣者感到非常丢脸。遗憾的是，他不能用真实的承诺改正，尽管病人认为一切都很容易改正。告解神师也说了同样的话，但他非常友好，非常善良，和蔼可亲。」然而，尽管病人和她的告解神师温和地劝告，朝圣者似乎还是坚持要换住处，正如我们可以从他日记中的以下记录中所看到的那样：——
“She has been ill, all night in convulsions. The Pilgrim found her in a pitiable state, though her soul is calm. She said to him : ‘My confessor bade me tell you that I am willing to change my abode ; but last night I received very clear and repeated warnings against it. The Abbe Lambert appeared and told me earnestly and decidedly that, if I did so, I would die before my time, after enduring unspeakable misery from the weakness of those around me. He chided me severely for having consented to the change.
「她病了，整晚都在抽搐。朝圣者发现她的状况很可怜，尽管她的灵魂很平静。她对朝圣者说：『我的告解神师让我告诉你，我愿意改变我的住所；但昨晚我收到了非常明确且反复的警告，反对这样做。兰伯特神父显现并恳切而坚决地告诉我，如果我这样做，我就会因周围人的软弱而忍受难以言喻的痛苦，过早地死去。兰伯特神父因我同意改变而严厉地责备了我。
When about to excuse myself and speak to him as I used to do, he said shortly : ‘Be silent and obey! We judge of things differently where I am.' Then falling into ecstasy, she said in a clear, firm voice which seemed to proceed from another, a very resolute person: ‘God must help me ; or I shall die! Since I put on the black robe, I have been pierced through and through. I have seen all, I have heard all that, up to the present, has been said about my moving, as well as the sentiments of the individuals concerned. It is a terrible sight for me ! The wrath excited on my account and for which I really am not responsible, is for me a hell ! It may cause my death! "
当我像往常一样想找个借口和兰伯特神父说话时，他简短地说：『保持沉默，服从命令！在我所在的地方（天上），我们对事情的判断是不同的。』然后，艾曼丽修女陷入神魂超拔，她用一种清晰而坚定的声音说：『天主一定要帮助我；否则我会死的！自从我穿上黑袍之后，我就被刺穿了。到目前为止，关于我搬家的一切传闻，以及有关人士的情绪，我都看到了，也都听到了。这情景对我来说太可怕了！因我而激起的愤怒，对我来说就是地狱，而我对此并不应该负责任！这可能会导致我的死亡！』」
“The next day the Pilgrim did, indeed, find her perfectly disfigured in countenance and apparently at the point of death. All night she had had hemorrhages and during the day chills and fever. Once she held up her burning hands to her confessor, exclaiming : ‘Take away these hands ! They are not mine ; they belong to Francis!’ She became so much worse toward evening that, persuaded she was going to die, she sent, notwithstanding the late hour, for the Pilgrim's brother."
「第二天，朝圣者确实发现她面目全非，显然已濒临死亡。她整夜都在出血，白天还发冷和发烧。有一次，她向她的告解神师举起滚烫的双手，喊道：『把这双手拿开！它们不是我的；它们属于圣方济！』傍晚时分，她的病情变得更加严重，她认为自己就要死了，于是不顾天色已晚，还是派人去请了朝圣者的弟弟。」
February 14th — " Next morning she was deathly weak, but calm and peaceful. She could speak only in a whisper. ‘I am still alive,’ she said, ' by the mercy of God ! Last night I saw above me two choirs of saints and angels, reaching to one another flowers, fruits, and writings. It seemed as if some wanted my death, whilst others were for my living longer. I thought myself that my hour had come. I was no longer in the body. I saw it lying here, whilst I was gently raised above it. I still had strength enough to confess and send for your brother, who has been displeased with me.
2 月 14 日——「第二天早上，她虚弱得像死一般，但却平静安详。她只能低声说话。她说，『『我还活着，靠着天主的怜悯！昨天晚上，我看到我上方有两位圣人和天使的歌咏团，他们互相递来鲜花、水果和文字。似乎有些人希望我死，而另一些人则希望我活得更久。我想我的时辰到了。我的身体已经不在了。当我被轻轻地举到我身体上面时，我看到我的身体躺在这里。我仍然有力气办告解并派人去找你的弟弟，他一直对我不满意。
After speaking to him, I had nothing more to trouble me, though what I said, I cannot now recall. It was nothing of my own ; my guide stood by me suggesting the words (1). I was raised up and I saw myself surrounded by saints, some praying that I might die, others that I might live, and they presented to me their prayers and merits. One of them showed me a man dying in Minister, his soul in a bad state. The saint told me to kneel and pray for him. I bestowed upon the dying man the prayers the saints had made for me; but, as I did not know whether my confessor would allow me to pray kneeling, since he often forbids it in the daytime, I sent the saint to ask him. He returned with the permission. I knelt and prayed, and saw a priest go to the dying man.' "
跟他谈过之后，我再没有什么烦心的事了，虽然我说了些什么，现在已经想不起来了。这不是我自己的话；我的护守天神站在我旁边，护守天神暗示我这么说的(1)。我的灵魂被提了，我看到自己被圣人们包围着，有些人在为我的死祈祷，有些人在为我的活祈祷，他们向我展示了他们的祈祷和功德。其中一个向我展示了一个在明斯特垂死的人，他的灵魂处于糟糕的状态。圣人让我跪下为他祈祷。我把圣人为我所做的祈祷给了那个垂死的人；但是，由于我不知道我的告解神师是否允许我跪着祈祷，因为他在白天经常禁止我这样做，所以我派圣人去问他。圣人得到了许可后回来了。我跪下祈祷，看到一位神父走向那个垂死的人。』」
(1) Christian Brentano afterward told his brother that Sister Emmerich had spoken to him very beautifully after her confession ; that, if things were as she said, they were of great importance ; but that he was resolved not to be hasty in changing his opinion. And, in truth, though now reconciled to her, he did not change his preconceived ideas of her case- -(Brentano’s Notes).
(1) 克里斯蒂安·布伦塔诺事后告诉他的兄弟，艾曼丽修女在她告解后对他说了非常动人的话；如果事情真如她所说的那样，那就非常重要的；但他决心不仓促改变自己的看法。事实上，虽然他现在与艾曼丽和解了，但他并没有改变他对艾曼丽案件的先入为主的看法——（布伦塔诺的注释）。
Father Limberg spoke of this night of agony, as follows : “Sister Emmerich had all the symptoms of approaching dissolution. After her confession, she sent for Mr. Christian Brentano, with whom she spoke in a low tone, after which he knelt down near her bed and prayed. I was in the adjoining room thinking: God grant that she may give me some sign by which I may know whether to administer to her the Last Sacraments! — when she suddenly arose on her knees, extended her arms, said an Our Father in aloud voice, and spoke of some man who bad just died in Minister.
林堡神父谈到了这一夜的痛苦时，说：「艾曼丽修女出现了身体与灵魂即将分离的症状。她告解后，派人叫来了克里斯蒂安·布伦塔诺先生，与他低声交谈，然后克里斯蒂安跪在她的床边祈祷。我在隔壁的房间里想：天主保佑艾曼丽修女能给我一点征兆，好让我知道是否要为她行最后的终傅圣事！——这时她突然跪下，伸出双臂，大声念出《天主经》，并谈到了一位刚刚在明斯特去世的人。
She seemed not to touch the bed. She told me that the Abbe Lambert would have had to suffer ten weeks longer, had she not averted it by her prayers ; but she now had to supply for him, and another short period of life had been granted her."
她对我说，如果不是她的祈祷，兰伯特神父可能还要再忍受十周的痛苦。但她现在还必须为这位在明斯特去世的人提供援助，虽然似乎已无可能亲自去到他的床边。她又获得了短暂的生命。」
February 17th, Quinquagesima Sunday. — " I have had a frightful night ! Three times did Satan attack and horribly maltreat me ! He stood at the left side of the bed, a dark figure full of rage, and assailed me with horrible menaces ; but I drove him off by prayer, though not until after he had struck me and dragged me around cruelly. — Again he appeared, beat me, and dashed me about ; but again I overcame him by calling on God for aid.
2 月17日，四旬期主日。——「我度过了一个可怕的夜晚！撒殚三次来攻击我，虐待我！魔鬼站在床的左边，一个充满愤怒的黑影，用可怕的威胁来攻击我；但我用祈祷把牠赶走了，虽然这是在牠残忍地把我拖来拖去并殴打我之后。——魔鬼又出现了，把我打得东倒西歪的；但我再次呼求天主的帮助，战胜了魔鬼。
When he disappeared, I lay a long time trembling with pain. — Toward morning, he came again for the third time and beat me, as if he wanted to break all my bones. Wherever his hot, fiery blows fell, my bones cracked. I grasped my relics and the particle of the True Cross. At last, Satan retired. Then my Heavenly Spouse appeared and said : Thou art my bride ! and I became calm. When day dawned, I saw
魔鬼消失后，我躺了好长时间，痛得直发抖。——天快亮的时候，魔鬼又来了，第三次来打我，好像要把我的骨头都打碎似的。无论魔鬼那灼热的击打落在哪里，我的骨头就裂开在哪里。我紧紧抓住了我的圣髑和真十字架颗粒。最后，撒殚退下了。这时我的天国净配出现了，说：『你是我的新娘！』我变得平静了。天一亮，我就看到恶魔把我房间里的所有东西都弄乱了。」
Satan's attacks were renewed the following night. “The evil one appeared to me under different forms ; he seized me by the shoulders, and loaded me with angry reproaches He often assumes a grand and imposing air as if he were very important, as if he had orders to give ; or, again, he puts on a sanctified demeanor and gravely represents to me as a great fault that I have assisted some soul in purgatory, or prevented the commission of some sin, etc., — as if such things were great crimes !
撒殚的攻击在第二天晚上再次发动。「恶魔以不同的形式出现在我面前；魔鬼抓住我的肩膀，怒气冲冲地斥骂我。魔鬼经常摆出一副神气十足、威风凛凛的样子，好像牠很重要似的，好像牠有命令要下达似的；间或，牠又装出一副神圣的样子，一本正经地对我说，我帮助了炼狱里的某个灵魂，或阻止了某些罪恶的发生，等等，这是一种极大的错误——仿佛这些事情都是重大的罪行！
Sometimes he appears in a frightful form, dwarfish and foxy with a broad, horrible face and twisted limbs. He abuses me ; pinches me, pulls me about, and occasionally he tries flattery. I often see him running around with a little horn on his head, very short arms without elbows, and legs with the knees turned backward."
有时恶魔会以一种可怕的样子出现，那样子像侏儒一样矮小、像狐狸一样狡猾，有着一张宽阔、可怕的脸和扭曲的四肢。牠虐待我；掐我，拉扯我，偶尔牠会尝试奉承我。我经常看到牠头上顶着一个小角跑来跑去，手臂很短，没有肘部，膝盖向后弯曲。」
The mental and physical sufferings which overwhelmed Sister Emmerich just after the decease of her good old friend, the Abbe, reduced her to such a state that it became exceedingly difficult for her to satisfy the Pilgrim with respect to the communication of her much-prized visions. He writes : " We hear now only of her misery, her torments, her vexations, of all she has done, etc., until one feels inclined to accuse himself of having caused her annoyance.
艾曼丽修女在她善良的老朋友兰伯特神父去世后，身心上遭受了巨大的痛苦，以至于她很难满足朝圣者对她所珍视的神视异象的传达。朝圣者写道：「我们现在只听到她的痛苦、折磨，烦恼，以及她所做的一切，等等，直到有人愿意指责自己是造成她烦恼的原因。
Then in come a couple of old women or the master of the house, or some old maid — all insignificant people, by whom, however, she permits herself to be annoyed, She never rids herself of such people ; and so, these old nobodies repeat visits which she looks upon as the greatest torment, and which cause her to forget her visions. Those precious graces, for which the Pilgrim is sacrificing a most important period of his life, are stifled, so to say, neath the filth of a few common flies, for it is nothing more nor less than that !"
这时，又来了几个老妇人，或者是男主人，或者是某个老处女——都是些无足轻重的人，然而，艾曼丽修女却任凭这些人搅扰，她从来没有摆脱过这样的人。就这样，这些无名小卒一再造访，浪费了她宝贵的时间，她视之为最大的折磨，这使她忘记了自己的神视。朝圣者为此牺牲了他一生中最重要的一段时光，而那些珍贵的恩宠，可以说，被扼杀在几只普通苍蝇的污秽之下，这实在让他感到可惜! 」
