Father Eusebius Nieremburg, who resided at the College of Madrid, where he died in the odor of sanctity in 1658, relates the story of a noble and exceedingly pious lady, who asked God to make known to her what displeased His Divine Majesty most in persons of her sex. The Lord vouchsafed in a miraculous manner to hear her. He opened under her eyes the eternal abyss. There she saw a woman a prey to cruel torments and in her recognized one of her friends, a short time
before deceased. This sight caused her as much astonishment as grief:
the person whom she saw damned did not seem to her to have lived
badly. Then that unhappy soul said to her: "It is true that I
practiced religion, but I was a slave of vanity. Ruled by the passion
to please, I was not afraid to adopt indecent fashions to attract
attention, and I enkindled the fire of impurity in more than one
heart. Ah! If Christian women knew how much immodesty in dress
displeases God!" At the same moment, this unhappy soul was pierced by
two fiery lances and plunged into a caldron of liquid lead.