CHAPTER II. Supernatural favours.--Infused knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and of the Latin language.--Facility for imparting Spiritual Instruction.-- Temptations.--Loses her Director.--Interior desolation.--Fidelity.-- Consolation.--Profession.--Renewed Trials.--Reassuring direction.--New difficulties about her son. CHAPTER III. She is named Assistant-Mistress of Novices.--Prophetic Vision of her vocation to Canada.--Spiritual maxims and instructions.--Spirit of silence.--Forms many Saints. CHAPTER IV. Increase of zeal for the salvation of souls.--Divinely directed to pray for their conversion through the Heart of Jesus.--Her vocation for Canada is revealed to her. CHAPTER V. Madame de la Peltrie.--Early Piety.--Charity.--Desire for the Religious State.--Obliged to marry.--Loses her Husband.--Zeal for Souls.--Is inspired to devote herself to the Canadian Mission.--Her vocation confirmed in a dangerous illness.--Opposition.--Death of her Father.-- Services of Monsieur de Bernières.--Goes to Paris. CHAPTER VI. The Mother of the Incarnation declares her vocation for Canada.-- Contradictions and Humiliations.--Her confidence in God.--Esteem for her vocation.--Submission to the Divine Will. CHAPTER VII. Madame de la Peltrie invites the Mother of the Incarnation to accompany her to Canada.--The Venerable Mother's answer.--Madame de la Peltrie at Tours.--The Mothers of the Incarnation and St. Bernard selected for the Mission.--Opposition from relatives.--The Venerable Mother's vision of the trials awaiting her.--Monsieur de Bernières.--Farewell Letter. THIRD PERIOD, 1639 TO 1672. THE VENERABLE MOTHER'S LIFE IN CANADA. CHAPTER I. Embarkation.--Alarm from a Spanish Fleet.--Danger from an Iceberg.-- Arrival at Tadoussac.--First night in Canada.--Reception at Quebec.-- Visit to Sillery.--The "Louvre." CHAPTER II. The Mother of the Incarnation recognises Canada to be the country shown her in her prophetic vision.--Opening of the Schools.--Study of the Indian languages.--Small-pox among the Pupils.--Arrival of two Sisters from Paris.--Union of Congregations.-Building of new Convent. CHAPTER III Work at the "Louvre."--Progress of the Pupils.--Piety.--Lively Faith in the Real Presence.--Refinement of feeling.--Zeal.--Teresa the Huron.-- Agnes.--Little Truants.--Banquets at the "Louvre," CHAPTER IV. Renewed Trials of the Venerable Mother.--Madame de la Peltrie removes to Montreal.--Great Poverty of the Ursulines.--Apprehensions.--The Venerable Mother's confidence in God.--Fidelity to grace.--Exactitude to duty.-- Active Life.--First Elections.--Removal to the New Monastery.--Return of Madame de la Peltrie. CHAPTER V. The Mother of the Incarnation a victim for the Conversion of her son and her niece.--Conversion of both, followed by the cessation of her interior sufferings.--Arrival of new subjects from France.--Mother St. Athanasius Superior.--First Profession at Quebec.--Destruction of the Hurons.-- Charity of the Ursulines to the Survivors.