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She would later advise her confessor and biographer, the Blessed Raymond of Capua, O. P., ( who went on to become Master General of the Order ) to do during times of trouble what she did now as a teenager: " Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

" In this inner cell she made her father into a representation of Christ, Lapa into the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her brothers into the apostles.

Serving them humbly became an opportunity for spiritual growth.

The greater the suffering, the larger her triumph was.

Eventually her father gave up and permitted her to live as she pleased.