There is more news of this " Nun of Blois."
The Superior of the Ursuline Convent of Blois asserts that in 1804 an attendant of the convent, who had lived a life of great simplicity and devotion, was on her death-bed, and that she was attended one day by a young Postulant, now called Mere Providence. The dying woman was describing what was to happen in the future, and the young Postulant remonstrated that she ought to confide her prophecy to some older and official member of the convent, not to a mere Postulant, and one, moreover, likely to quit her noviciate, owing to the strong objections of her family. To this the dying woman replied, " When you are of age to take your vows, your mother will no longer oppose your doing so, and it is to you alone that I wish to confide these things, because it is you alone who will see their fulfilment." And, in fact, adds the Superior, six months later, the Postulant lost her mother,. was at liberty to take the vows, which she did, and is still living in possession of quite exceptional gaiety and health at the age of ninety-two. No precise date was fixed for the fulfilment of the prophecies ; but some were fulfilled in 1848 and some seem in course of fulfilment now, " yet Mere Providence never confounded the events of 1848 with those of the present time." It is getting quite time that the " three messengers" should arrive at Blois. Perhaps the first and despondent one will take the news of the fall of Metz,—but where is the " Sauveur accordti Is la France ?" He seems to be long in coming. Is it General Trochu, or, per- haps, Lord Granville ?
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