First Sentence

"At the end of two years, during the whole of which time both other people and myself were continually praying for what I have described-that the Lord would either lead me by another way or make plain the truth: and these locutions which, as I have said, the Lord was giving me were very frequent-I had the following experience. I was at prayer on a festival of the glorious Saint Peter when I saw Christ at my side-or, to put it better, I was conscious of Him, for neither with the eyes of the body nor with those of the soul did I see anything."