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Ecstatic Trances. During her two hospital examinations, totaling five weeks, Mrs. Mclsaac was not left alone for a moment day or night. "The examining doctors made many tests . . . Blood smears "were taken during the Friday agonies and compared with blood smears made on other days. Another test had to do with the time the agonies begin and end-invariably 6 and 9 p.m. In this test the time was surreptitiously advanced 4½ hours. Mrs. Mclsaac had no clock or watch in her room, and her daily schedule and meals were altered to give her the impression that...
Said a Protestant doctor who took part in these examinations: "Mrs. Mclsaac was bright, lively and full of energy right up until late Friday afternoon. During the early part of the week she was in very good health despite the marks ... On Friday afternoon the marks on her body began to lose their hardness, and towards 6 o'clock they appeared more like fresh wounds. It was apparent that she was beginning to feel pain . . . She appeared to lapse into a trance . . . Her pain seemed to intensify to agony . . . Soon a drop of blood began to form...
Accepted Fact. During her three-hour ordeal, Mrs. Mclsaac goes into ecstatic trances. Afterward she describes her visions. A Catholic priest who has investigated them terms their details accurate as to background, architecture, dress, manners and language: "In the visions of the Passion, for instance, not only does she hear the vernacular of the time and place, Aramaic, but distinguishes between dialects of this tongue. She describes the . . . Roman eagles, fasces and other objects in very simple language but in great detail...
...stigmata have not changed Mrs. Mclsaac's life very much. She is sociable with her neighbors, but on Cardinal Mc-Guigan's advice she avoids curiosity-seekers. Her eldest daughter recently graduated as a nurse. Her eldest son helps on the farm, and the other children are still in school. Financially, the family is as well fixed as before-but no better...
...Catholics in Uptergrove believe that Mrs. Mclsaac's stigmata are God-given. Not all the Protestants are doubters. Visitors are surprised at how calmly her neighbors take her. But as one villager said: "It isn't as if it was something new. Been going on now for more than ten years. I guess we've just come to accept it as a fact and let it go at that...