ESCLARMONDA DE MONSOS, SECOND TESTIMONY

Witness Testimony recorded by Lucien

CITY OF NARBONA

riar! Grácia for coming. I see that young oaf Pascaut did find you at the convent. Bon.

I’ll tell you why I’ve summoned you. I didn’t bring you all this way not to tell you.

Friar, God is kind to you. Here you were, days ago, so despondent, searching for your runaway. Is she the daughter of a pious nobleman?

But hear this! My sister, my own sister, Friar, has sent me a message. She sent a nephew all this way to bring me word. She lives in Bajas. South, along the coast of the lagoon. She’s a widow, my sister is, but her son, the fisherman, is good to her. They had a baby, the fisherman and his wife, and it wouldn’t thrive. It happens, God knows, and watching young mothers pine will break your heart. How many times I’ve seen it!

Oc, I’m telling you. The baby was healed by a woman who appeared in the night. Be she flesh or be she spirit, they could not say. But her name was Dolssa. A name you don’t often hear. My sister knows how crippled I am, and my poor husband, how weak in his wits. She sent her messenger to say, Come to Bajas and be healed. I thought, That young friar was looking for a Dolssa. This one clearly belongs to God. Could be they’re the same. So I sent for you.

I can’t make the journey. I’m far too weak. But I can rejoice in God’s miracles, and pray this Dolssa might send a healing my way. Would you ask her, for my sake?

Go to her there, Friar, in Bajas. Go, and may God’s will be done in her, and in you.