Now prayers were going to be offered up for the dead, and the visible woman was to act as Interceder with the invisible one in heaven.
"Through Five Republics on Horseback"
G. Whitfield Ray
He then acquainted me that he was a hermit, that he had been formerly cast away on that coast, with his wife, whom he dearly loved, but could not preserve from perishing; on which account he had resolved never to return to France, which was his native country, but to devote himself to prayer and a holy life, placing all his hopes in the blessed expectation of meeting that dear woman again in heaven, where, he was convinced, she was now a saint and an Interceder for him.
"The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great"
Henry Fielding