Bridget is kneeling at the altar on which the candle is burning. Her face is distorted in pain, and the hands are helplessly spread. Above, in the clouds a pair of angels are raising a childlike figure that the painter presented in proportions of an adult. The caption below is: MORTEM BEATAM SVI FILII SPECTAT CAWLVM PETENTIS LIB [RO] 7 REVEL [ATIONVM] CAPIITE vel ITVLO 13 (Sees the happy death of her son heading to heaven, Book 7 of Revelations, chapter 13).
The inscription clearly says that this is an illustration of the Revelations' fragment about her son Charles's death. In the form of a naked child, we see the soul of Charles. In this way people's souls were often depicted in art. The son is still glancing at the desperate mother while she is looking at the altar. Bridget is dressed in an usual dress of a nun, without the prince's mitre, and her head is clearly marked with a luminous nimbus.
Charles, Bridget's eldest son, was violent, non-obligatory and indifferent to faith. When he stayed with his mother at the end of February 1372, he fell ill with heart and died on March 12. Bridget, although she loved her son, did not show any pain. The Saint's pain, shown in the image, refers not to the fact of his death. She poured tears when she realized that the life that he led on earth would not provide him eternal life.
In the signature indicated in the picture relating to Bridget's writings, a court process over the soul of her son was described. We learn from it that after his death, the mother helped him with merciful deeds and long prayers to entreat for him the God's mercy. Eventually, Charles obtained that great Lord's mercy what is seen in the painting. For devil's complaints that such soul should be his property, the angel replied that the tears and constant prayers of his mother caused that God commiserated with him.