patience, although
it pained him to the soul to see that the corregidor's contempt was
resulting in prejudice to the Catholic religion. He practiced several
secret efforts ordered by charity in order to restrain the corregidor's
tongue, but seeing that they were insufficient, generally chided in
a sermon the evil employment of sacrilegious mouths which, taking
the gospel laborers as the object of their detractions, prevent the
fruit of their preaching, although they should aid in the attainment
of so holy an end. The chief culprit was present, toward whom without
naming him the father directed his aim; and since, after one has once
left the hand of God, he precipitates himself easily from one abyss
to another (angered by the pain which was caused him by the medicine,
which was being applied prudently in order to cure him of his pain and
indiscreetly abusing the authority which resided in his person), he
rose in anger, with the determination to impose silence on the father
who (if he was talking) it was, for his own [i. e., the corregidor's]
good. "Sacrilegious preacher" he exclaimed, but when he attempted
to continue his face was suddenly twisted, and he could not utter
a word, and he was extremely disfigured and was attacked by most
intense pains. He was taken to his house, where the venerable father
attended him, and by his only making the sign of the cross above the
corregidor's mouth the patient was restored to his former state of
health in body, while in soul he was completely changed. The courage
to make public penitence for his public crimes, and to return his
credit entirely to so holy a religious did not fail him.

805. [The same father although very sick with fever did not hesitate,
aided by spiritual forces, to go to a distance to administer to a sick
person who had urgently requested his presence--a fact that conduced
not a little to the conversion of the natives round about.]

806 [and 807]. The second convent was founded in the village of Naojan
by the father definitor, Fray Eugenio de los Santos, and St. Nicholas
of Tolentino was assigned it as titular. Besides the said principal
village, it had in its charge six annexed villages of visitas, namely,
Pola, Pinamalayan, Balente, Sumagay, Maliguo, and Bongabong. However,
with the change of the district of Mangarin, of which we shall
speak later, there was some variation in the distribution of those
settlements. That ministry is one of the first in authorit