“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 lovelier than words can depict.  This [vision of the] Lord gradually receded from them, rising toward heaven, until it reached the moon, when it disappeared from their sight.  This lovely vision aroused in them deep love, and, when it departed from them, sadness and sorrow.  I sent to bid them calm their grief.  On the following day, in the church, those same young women, with their servants and those of their household, arose before all the people; and when I asked them what that meant, they recounted what had occurred to them the night before.  Yet they are simple and artless people, who were quite bashful and timid when I questioned them.  The next day we learned that this vision, or cross, had been seen at the same time in another