This soul then being mollified, softened, and almost melted away in this love-full pain, was thereby extremely disposed to receive the impressions and marks of love and pain of his sovereign lover; for his memory was wholly steeped in the remembrance of this divine love, his imagination forcibly applied to represent unto himself the wounds and livid bruises which his eyes then saw so perfectly expressed…; the understanding received those most vivid images which the imagination furnished it; and, finally, love employed all the forces of the will to enter into and conform itself to the passion of her well-beloved; whence without doubt the soul found herself transformed into a second crucified.
Saint Francis de Sales discussing Francis of Assisi