The Sisters who lived with Saint Eustochia wrote of her last words as she lay dying. They said she exhorted them afterward to be vigilant over their souls; to maintain mutual peace, charity and unity; to be humble and meek, especially when approaching the Sacrament of the Eucharist…
Everything that I needed to tell you concerning perfection and holiness, I have shared with you with the help of my Lord… Do not seek perfection through human means, but by the way of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ and of his Nativity, since He humbled himself so much that He took upon Himself the opprobrium of evildoers; and to make His death more dishonorable, He chose to die between two thieves…Choose the Crucified as father and He will teach you in everything: do as I, who did not go seeking after a human person, but rather abandoned myself totally into the arms of the Crucified, and from Him I received all teaching.” - St. Eustochia of Calafato