I am Anna Llagostera, wife of Joan Vicent France, I am a plague victim.

The plague threatens the whole city. I've seen it happen with great pain to friends and brothers on their way to visit one of the leper who have settled in Valencia. They do not come back out alive. We prayed to the Virgin of the Helpless imploring his protection, but there's no remedy. The Board of Disease marked and sealed our house, in which all have passed away but my husband and me. Yesterday he showed obvious symptoms of evil and our time is coming. We settled our worldly business with clerk and Father Pujades is coming to take our final confession so we may die right with God. We have lived this bad time with patience and resignation, and now we have to trust that we will receive the prize that the good God has prepared for those who have lived a Christian life.