During the latter period, the divine services were celebrated with great solemnity, and there were processions of blood in the two churches of San Juan and Antipolo, with a goodly number of confessions and communions.  Another father—­a middle-aged man, who knew the language—­came from Manila to help in this work, with orders not to remain more than one week, on account of the need of priests in Manila.  However, on the second day of Easter, the rector of Manila came with two other fathers who knew the language, on their vacation, very opportunely for concluding the confessions and communions in those villages.  During the month that we spent there, there was a notable concourse of people who came to confess, and great was the number of communions.  At that time there occurred to Father Pedro de Segura, who was one of those who had gone thither from Manila, an extraordinary incident in connection with the image of our blessed Father Ignatius.  One morning, at daybreak, he was summoned in behalf of a woman who lay in a critical condition from childbirth, and wished to confess with Father Segura.  While the father was dressing himself to go, he sent for an image of our father, to whom he professed great devotion—­which had been increased by the outcome of the shipwrecks which we have described, in which he himself had been present.  There was some delay in bringing the image, so that the father reached the sick woman first; and after he had confessed her the image arrived.  The poor woman was much exhausted, and, according to the midwife, in extreme danger.  The infant was dead, and as it lay obliquely in the womb, the mother could not obtain relief by expelling it.  The father exhorted her to have confidence in our Lord, and placing the image before her, left her calling loudly to heaven in her anguish.  A second time they called him to hear her confession; and the father, having done so and encouraged her as before, went away.  As he was descending from the house the woman expelled the infant, to the wonder of all at seeing the dead child, and the mother living and free from so great a peril.

The people of Antipolo celebrated with great solemnity the feast of the most blessed sacrament, which was attended by the people of our mission as well as of many others.  A dialogue in the Tagal language was spoken by the children of the seminary with much cleverness and indication of ability, and to the satisfaction and pleasure of the hearers.  This seminary is making great progress in both spiritual and temporal affairs.  It is aided by the Indians, with generous alms for its maintenance; and (what is of even greater value) they act with such harmony and edification that they may well serve as an example to the Spanish youth.  Some of these pupils are of signal virtue, and our Lord shows them many favors.  Every day they go to hear mass, or, in case there is no one to say it, to commend themselves to our Lord in the church.  They regularly go from their houses reciting