At the thought of Fray Diego leaving, she wrote to her father, she was 'in such a state she feels almost desperate', and if Ferdinand did not help, she feared 'something may happen which neither he nor king Henry would be able to prevent'. Her confessor was her 'only consolation' in her 'miserable life' and she would 'perish' without him. She begged her father to help 'before [her] life was sacrificed, as she fear[ed] it would be soon, owing to the trials she [had] to endure.' Lastly, she threatened to 'do something desperate'.

In a letter to her father in March [of 1509], Catherine broke down and told him she could no longer combat the petty persecutions of Henry VII. Only recently he had told her he was under no obligation to feed either her or her attendants; he added spitefully that her food was being given to her as alms.

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