Pazzi is said to have had a series of raptures and ecstasies. Veronica became accustomed to nearly constant apparitions and religious ecstasies. As a youth, Francesco reported that he had experienced heavenly visions and ecstasies. He initially saw Ramakrishna's ecstasies and visions as "mere figments of imagination" and "hallucinations". Reader after reader describes their "tears", "sighs", "torments" and "ecstasies" to Rousseau. Their conclusion was that there was no conscious deception in the stigmata and the ecstasies. He rallied the Anabaptists against conservative forces with "frenzied ecstasies". He had the priceless calm for the understanding of his own poetic ecstasies. The first three record ecstasies from May 1584 through Pentecost week of the following year. Some of his poems are said to have been written in ecstasies. During this period Nirmala went into ecstasies at public "kirtans".