After receiving a mystical vision, he decided to devote himself entirely to the contemplative life, and in 1467 he left his wife and his ten children with her consent and set himself up as a hermit in the Ranft valley in Switzerland.
He decided to devote himself entirely to the contemplative life. He was receiving a mystical vision. He left his wife with her consent. He left his ten children with her consent. He set himself up as a hermit in the Ranft valley in Switzerland. He was receiving a mystical vision. This was in 1467.