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The confessor revived him, finished the confession, and absolved him, finding him truly contrite and resolved to change his life. He returned to his own country, having freely given the priest leave to make known everywhere the great mercy Mary had shown him.

He had hardly finished when Mary freed him all at once from the temptation. His peace came back, and with it his health, and from then on he lived as a devoted servant of Mary, proclaiming her mercies in his preaching and his writing for the rest of his life.

She threw herself at his feet in tears, begged his pardon, and said that the Mother of God, through his prayer, had delivered her from hell. They went together to give thanks, and the next day she told the whole story to their relatives, showing the mark of the wound, and all of them were stirred to a greater love of Our Lady.