 In all the forty-five years of her life in the Hospice, nobody knew that she was the Sister to whom the Blessed Mother appeared.Then it was 1876. the moment to speak has come; the Blessed Virgin released her from her silence and before her last breath on December 31, 1876, Sister Catherine confided the story to the Superior of the house of Reifully, Sister Dufes.Fifty-six years later, Cardinal Verdier authorized the exhumation with a view of her beatification.