It was the common talk at Goa, that he had raised the dead on the coast of Fishery.  After his return to Goa, James Borba and Cozmo Annez, his two intimate friends, requested him to inform them, for God’s further glory, how those matters went; and particularly they enquired concerning the child who was drowned in the well.  The holy man, at this request, hung down his head, and blushed exceedingly:  when he was somewhat recovered of his bashfulness, “Jesus,” said he, “what, I to raise the dead! can you believe these things of such a wretch as I am?” After which, modestly smiling, he went on, “Alas, poor sinner that I am! they set before me a child, whom they reported to be dead, and who perhaps was not; I commanded him, in the name of God, to arise; he arose indeed, and there was the miracle.”

Ordognez Cevalio, who travelled almost round the world, tells us, in the relations of his voyages, that, in India, he happened to meet a Japonese, who informed him, in a discourse which they had together of these particulars:  “Know,” said he, “that being in Japan, a Bonza by profession, I was once at an assembly of our Bonzas, who, upon the report of so many miracles as were wrought by Father Francis Xavier, resolved to place him in the number of their gods; in order to which, they sent to him a kind of embassy; but the Father was seized with horror at the proposition of their deputies.  Having spoken of God to them, after a most magnificent and elevated manner, he spake of himself in terms so humble, and with so much self-contempt, that all of us were much edified by his procedure; and the greatest part of us seriously reflecting, rather on his carriage than his words, from priests of idols, which we were, became the worshippers of Jesus Christ.”

He shunned the offices of the Society, and believed himself unworthy of them.  “I cannot tell you,” wrote he from Cochin to Father Ignatius, “how much I stand obliged to the Japonese; in favour of whom, God has given me clearly to understand the infinite number of my sins; for till that time, I was so little recollected, and so far wandered out of myself, that I had not discovered, in the bottom of my heart, an abyss of imperfections and failings.  It was not till my labours and sufferings in Japan, that I began at length to open my eyes, and to understand, with God’s assistance, and by my own experience, that it is necessary for me to have one, who may watch over me, and govern me.  May your holy charity be pleased, for this reason, to consider what it is you do, in ranging under my command so many saint-like souls of the fathers and brethren of our Society.  I am so little endued with the qualities which are requisite for such a charge, and am so sensible that this is true, through God’s mercy, that I may reasonably hope, that, instead of reposing on me the care of others, you will repose on others the care of me.”  He infinitely esteemed those missioners who were his seconds; and accounted his own pains