If she didn’t trust Christ, didn’t have faith in Him, she didn’t make it, works notwithstanding.
Despair is not a hallmark of faith.
AMEN! Luther was racked with agony when he couldn't reconcile Scripture to the rituals and superstitions of Rome.
When he relied on Scripture alone, life fell into place and truth became apparent.
Despair vanishes in the singular light of Christ.
Luther was wracked with agony that he could not reconcile with the Catholic Church as the following quotes prove:
"We concede -- as we must -- that so much of what they (the Catholic Church) say is true: that the papacy has God's word and the office of the apostles, and that we have received Holy Scriptures, Baptism, the Sacrament, and the pulpit from them. What would we know of these if it were not for them?" - Sermon on the gospel of St. John, chaps. 14 - 16 (1537), in vol. 24 of LUTHER'S WORKS, St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia, 1961, 304.
"This one will not hear of Baptism, and that one denies the sacrament, another puts a world between this and the last day: some teach that Christ is not God, some say this, some say that: there are as many sects and creeds as there are heads. No yokel is so rude but when he has dreams and fancies, he thinks himself inspired by the Holy Ghost and must be a prophet." - De Wette III, 61. quoted in O'Hare, THE FACTS ABOUT LUTHER, 208.
"Noblemen, townsmen, peasants, all classes understand the Evangelium better than I or St. Paul; they are now wise and think themselves more learned than all the ministers." - Walch XIV, 1360. quoted in O'Hare, Ibid, 209.