About a special sign of the Spirit.
One should also know that from the first time that the bride of God was visited by the Spirit of God she had this sign: that, when she was approached by human beings full of diabolic spirit or who were averse to goodness, she felt so great a stench in her nostrils and so bitter a taste in her mouth that she could hardly bear it. Wherefore, when a certain man - who had undergone a change away from goodness and had returned to his earlier sins - had sat down with the bride of God and was speaking with her, he said to her: ”What is this about a spirit that you are said to have? Is it from you or from someone else or from a demon?”
To this she - who scarcely had the strength to bear his stench - responded: ”You have a fetid indweller, and fetid things proceed from your mouth. Repent, therefore, lest there come upon you the vengeance of God!” The man went away angry; and, when he had gone to sleep, he heard voices without number saying: ”Let us drag the pig to the places for pigs because he has spurned the warnings of salvation.” Returning to himself, he perfectly corrected his life; and his odor was perceived by the said lady to have changed into sweetness.
A similar thing, as it were, happened to the same Lady Bridget in Famagusta, in the kingdom of Cyprus, with a certain religious to whom she was speaking; and with many other people, this similarly happened to her.
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