BOOK III.

He writes into Europe for a supply of missioners.  The saint’s letter to the doctors of Sorbonne.  Ambassadors from the isle of Manar to the saint.  He sends a missioner to the isle of Manar.  The constancy of the Christians of Manar.  A miraculous cross, and its effects.  The enterprise of Xavier against the persecutor.  New motives for his journey to Cambaya.  He persuades Michael Vaz to go to Portugal.  His letter to the king of Portugal.  The success of the voyage undertaken by Michael Vaz.  He converts a debauched Portuguese.  He engages the viceroy of the Indies to make war on the king of Jafanatapan.  Divers predictions of the saint.  He goes to join the Portuguese fleet, and raises one from the dead.  He frees the island of Manar from the plague.  The enterprise of Jafanatapan defeated.  He designs the voyage of Macassar, and the conversion of many kingdoms.  He goes to the sepulchre of St Thomas, to consult God concerning his voyage to Macassar.  What happened to him in his passage to Meliapor.  He comes to Meliapor; the monuments which he there finds of the apostle St Thomas.  He is threatened by devils, and afterwards beaten by them.  He learns the will of God concerning his design.  The conversions which he makes at Meliapor.  He brings a great sinner to repentance.  Divers wonderful events which encrease his fame.  He persuades a rich merchant to evangelical perfection.  The new convert falls from grace, and becomes suspected to the Saint.  His charity to a soldier, who had lost all his money at play.  He arrives at Malacca; a digression concerning it.  In what condition he found the town, and what he did in order to reform it.  He labours with success at Malacca.  He revives a dead maid.  He receives letters from Europe by the new missioners who are sent him.  He defers the voyage to Macassar, and designs another.  He foreknows, and foretels the ruin of Malacca.  He goes to Amboyna, and what happens to him in his voyage.  He arrives at Amboyna:  What he performs there.  He converts the idolaters and Moors of Amboyna.  A Spanish fleet arrives at Amboyna.  He assists the Spanish fleet during the contagion amongst them.  He passes into divers islands.  He recovers his crucifix, which was fallen into the sea.  He foretels the holy death of a new convert.  He goes to the island of Ulate, and the miracle there wrought by him.  He goes to the Moluccas.  What happens to him in his way.  He declares to the people the death of John Araus.  He makes many converts at Ternate.  Conversion of a queen at Ternate.  He hears of the isles del Moro.  Great endeavours are used to dissuade the saint from going to the isles del Moro.  He complains of those who make opposition to his voyage to the isle Del Moro.  He goes for the isle Del Moro, and writes to Rome.  God reveals to him what is doing in a distant island.  He arrives at Del Moro; the condition in which he found it.  He gains the