ading when the woman
regained her senses and said 'Jesus.' She then made her confession,
and even before we departed she had recovered health, and was offering
thanks to our Lord.

"They also called us in to see two children who were dying. We went
to them in haste, putting aside the confessions which we had on hand;
and found both of them speechless and unconscious--one of them with
no sign of respiration--and already bewailed as dead. We recited the
holy gospel to them, and gave them holy water; and soon we left them
so well that one of them, who was four or five years old, came down
that same day to play with the other children, and the other one soon
became well. We went to hear the confession of a man who lived a legua
and a half away from the village; he was so sick that they could not
bring him to the church, for his body was in such a state of corruption
that no one would touch him. We went to hear his confession and found
him in the condition which we have described; he could not even move
from one side to another. We sought to induce him to confess, and
repeated to him the holy gospel. This was on Friday or Saturday; on
the following Sunday, when I asked for him, they told me that he was
sound and well, and had gone to another island in quest of food. We
were informed that another, a pagan woman, was at the point of death;
at her request, we went to baptize her. I gave her this sacrament
in some haste, lest she should die on my hands; but after baptism
she regained her health. All these things aroused in their hearts a
deep affection for our Lord, and they recognized that what had been
preached to them was the truth, and that their idols are but demons.

"I also desire to relate to your Reverence how one night, about ten
o'clock, while I was commending myself to our Lord, round about the
church I heard many persons weeping most piteously, yet in gentle
tones, as if grieving for something which had been lost. Fearing lest
it might be some case of death, I sent out two boys to inquire what
it was. Some women of rank, the daughters of the master of the house,
replied that they and the other women were weeping because on that
night, having finished chanting the Christian doctrine, while in a
passage-way or corridor of the house and gazing toward the sky, they
saw as it were one fastened on a cross with a crown on his disfigured
but beautiful head. His body and breast were brighter than the sun,
white, and loveli