On the day of his wife's death, John Calvin was impressed with her serenity. "She suddenly cried out in such a way that all could see that her spirit had risen far above this world. These were her words, 'O glorious resurrection! O God of Abraham and of all of our fathers, the believers of all the ages have trusted on Thee and none of them have hoped in vain. And now I fix my hope on Thee.' These short statements were cried out rather than distinctly spoken. These were not lines suggested by someone else but came from her own thoughts."

An hour later she could no longer speak and her mind seemed confused. "Yet her facial expressions revealed her mental alertness," John recalled later. "I said a few words to her about the grace of Christ, the hope of everlasting life, our marriage and her approaching departure. Then I turned aside to pray." Before long she quietly "slipped from life into death."