in dangers, and his confidence in God.  His humility.  His maxims on humility.  His submission to God’s good pleasure.  His religious obedience.  His maxims on obedience, and his love for the Society.  His poverty, and his mortification.  His purity of soul and body.  His devotion to the blessed Virgin.  His canonization is solicited, and what is done in order to it, by the king of Bungo.  He is had in veneration through all Asia.  Miracles are wrought in all places through his intercession.  Three remarkable cures.  The perpetual miracle of the saint’s body.  He is beatified, and in sequel canonized.  The contents of the bull of his canonization.  The veneration of the saint is much increased since his canonization.  New miracles are wrought, and chiefly in Italy.  What may be concluded from these testimonies, and from all the Book.

The affairs of the Society being accommodated in this manner, Xavier thought on nothing more than how to supply the missions of the Indies with good labourers; or rather to increase the number of the missioners, who were not sufficient for the common needs.  He therefore sent Melchior Nugnez to Bazain, Gonsalvo Rodriguez to Cochin, John Lopez to Meliapor, and Luys Mendez to the Fishery, where he confirmed Henry Henriquez for superior, whom the missioners of that coast had already chosen instead of Antonio Criminal.

After this, he bent his whole endeavours to procure an embassy to China.  The viceroy, Don Alphonso de Norogna, with great willingness, granted to James Pereyra that employment which Xavier had desired for him.  He promised even to favour it, in all things depending on him; and gave wherewithal to furnish out presents for the emperor of China.  Notwithstanding the most magnificent were made at the charges of the ambassador, he had prepared cloth of gold, ornaments for an altar of brocard pictures of devotion, in rich frames, made by the best hands of Europe, with copes and other magnificent church-stuff, all proper to represent to the Chinese the majesty of the Christian religion.  The bishop, Don Juan d’Albuquerque, was not less favourable to the designs of the Father than the viceroy; and being willing to write to the emperor of China, thereby to give an honourable testimony to the holy law of God, he ordered his letter to be written in characters of gold, and bordered about with curious painting.  Nothing more was wanting than only to make choice of such missioners as were to accompany Xavier to China, and to provide others for Japan; for, besides that the saint himself had his dear Japonians always in his memory, the ambassador of the king of Bungo, who was come with him to Goa, requested some evangelical preachers in his master’s name.  The man of God had enough to do, to content all those, who were desirous of that employment.  There were at that time thirty of the Society in the college of Goa.  Some of them had been in the Indies from the first years of Xavier’s arrival in those ports; others were either new comers, or had been lately admitted; all of them were of approved virtue, and well worthy of that vocation, which they so earnestly desired; but there was none amongst them who sought it with more eagerness, nor who more signally deserved it, than Caspar Barzaeus.