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A28873	The life of St. Francis Xavier, of the Society of Jesus, apostle of the Indies, and of Japan written in French by Father Dominick Bohours, of the same Society ; translated into English by Mr. Dryden.; Vie de Saint François Xavier de la Campagnie de Jesus, apostre des Indes et du Japon. English	Bouhours, Dominique, 1628-1702.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing B3825; ESTC R15455	341,142	791

of his health and the sign of the Cross was no sooner made over him but his whole body became as clean as if he had never been infected with Leprosy The suddenness of the Cure wrought in him to believe in Christ without farther difficulty and his lively Faith brought him hastily to Baptism But the most celebrated Miracle which Xavier wrought in Cangoxima was the Resurrection of a young Maid of Quality She died in the flower of her youth and her Father who lov'd her tenderly was ready to go distracted with his loss Being an Idolater he had no sourse of comfort remaining for his affliction and his Friends who came to condole with him instead of easing did but aggravate his grief two new Christians who came to see him before the Burial of his Daughter advis'd him to seek his remedy from the holy man who wrought such Wonders and beg her life of him with strong assurance of success The Heathen perswaded by these new Believers that nothing was impossible to this European Bonza and beginning to hope against all humane appearances aft●r the custom of the distrest who easily believe what they infinitely desire goes to find Father Xavier throws himself at his feet and with tears in his eyes beseeches him to raise up from death his only Daughter adding that the favour wou'd be to give a Resurrection to himself Xavier mov'd at the faith and affliction of the Father withdraws with Fernandez his Companion to recommend his desire to Almighty God and having ended his Prayer returns a little time after Go says he to the sorrowful Father your Daughter is alive The Idolater who expected that the Saint wou'd have accompanied him to his house and there call'd upon the name of his God over the Body of his Daughter thought himself ill us'd and cheated and went away dissatisfy'd But before he had walk'd many steps homeward he saw one of his Servants who transported with joy cried out aloud to him at a distance that his Daughter liv'd Soon after this his Daughter came her self to meet him and related to her Father that her Soul was no sooner departed from her Body but it was seiz'd by two ugly Fiends who wou'd have thrown her headlong into a Lake of Fire but that two unknown Persons whose Countenances were venerably modest snatch'd her out of the gripe of her two Executioners and restor'd her to li●e but in what manner she cou'd not tell The Iaponian suddenly apprehended who were the two Persons concern'd in her Relation and brought her straight to Xavier to acknowledge the miraculous favour ●he had receiv'd She no sooner cast her eyes on him and on Fernandez than she cry'd out Behold my two Redeemers and at the same time both she and her Father desir'd Baptism Nothing of this nature had ever been seen in that Country no History ever made mention that the Gods of Iapan had the power of reviving the dead So that this Resurrection gave the People a high conception of Christianity and made famous the name of Father Xavier But nothing will make more evident how much a Favourite he was to Heaven and how prevalent with that God whom he declar'd than that exemplary Judgment with which Divine Justice punish'd the bold impiety of a man who either carried on by his own madness or exasperated by that of the Bonza's one day rail'd at him with soul injurious Language The Saint suffer'd it with his accustom'd mildness and only said these words to him with somewhat a melancholly Countenance God preserve your Mouth Immediately the Miscreant felt his tongue eaten with a Cancer and there issued out of his mouth a purulent Matter mix'd with Worms and a stench that was not to be endur'd This Vengeance so visible and so sudden ought to have struck the Bonza's with terrour but their great numbers assur'd them in some measure and all of them acting in a Body against the Saint each of them had the less fear for his own particular What rais'd their indignation to the height was that a Lady of great Birth and Riches Wife to one of the most considerable Lords of all the Court and very liberal to the Pagods was solemnly Baptis'd with all the Family Seeing they prevail'd nothing by the ways they had attempted and that Persons of Quality were not less enamour'd of the Christian Doctrine than the vulgar and on the other side not daring to use violence in respect of the King's Edicts which permitted the profession of Christianity they contriv'd a new Artifice which was to address a complaint to the King of the King himself on the part of their Country Deities The most considerable of the Bonza's having been elected in a general Assembly for this Embassy went to the Prince and told him with an air rather threatning than submissive that they came in the name of Xaca and Amida and the other Deities of Iapan to demand of him into what Country he wou'd banish them that the Gods were looking out for new habitations and other Temples since he drove them shamefully out of his Dominions or rather out of theirs to receive in their stead a stranger God who usurps to himself Divine honours and will neither admit of a Superiour nor an Equal They added haughtily that 't is true he was a King but what a kind of King was a profane Man was it for him to be the Arbiter of Religion and to judge the Gods what probability was there too that all the Religions of Iapan shou'd err and the most prudent of the Nation be deceiv'd after the run of so many Ages what wou'd Posterity say when they shou'd hear that the King of Saxuma who held his Crown from Amida and Xaca overthrew their Altars and depriv'd them of the honours which they had so long enjoy'd but what wou'd not the Neighbouring Provinces attempt to revenge the injury done to their Divinities that all things seem'd lawful to be done on such occasions and the least he had to fear was a civil war and that so much the more bloody because it was founded on Religion The Conjuncture in which the Bonza's found the King was favourable to them It was newly told him that the Ships of Portugal which usually landed at Cangoxima had now bent their course to Firando and was extreamly troubled at it not only because his Estates shou'd receive no more advantage by their Trade but also because the King of Firando his Enemy wou'd be the only gainer by his loss As the good-will which he shew'd in the beginning to Father Xavier had scarce any other Principle but Interest he grew cold to him immediately after this ill news and this coldness made him ● incline to hearken to the Bonza's He granted all they demanded of him and ●orbad his Subjects on pain of death to become Christians or to forsake the old Religion of their Countrey Whatsoever good inclinations there were in the People

were the Universal Language His first care was to have a little Catechism translated into it being the same he had compos'd on the Coast of Fishery together with a more ample instruction which treated of the principal duties of Christianity He learnt all this without Book and to make himself the better understood he took a particular care of the Pronunciation With these helps and the assistance of Interpreters who were never wanting to him at his need he converted many Idolaters as also Mahometans and Iews amongst the rest a famous Rabbi who made a publick Abjuration of Iudaism This Rabbi who before had taken for so many Fables or juggling tricks all those wonders which are reported to have been done by Xavier now acknowledg'd them for Truths by the Evidence of his own Eyes For the Saint never wrought so many Miracles as at Malacca The Juridical Depositions of Witnesses then living have assur'd us that all sick persons whom he did but touch were immediately cur'd and that his Hands had an healing vertue against all Distempers One of his most famous cures was that of Antonio Fernandez a Youth not above fifteen years of age was sick to death His Mother a Christian by profession but not without some remainders of Paganism in her Heart seeing that all natural Remedies were of no effect had recourse to certain Enchantments frequently practis'd amongst the Heathens and sent for an old Sorceress who was call'd N●i The Witch made her Magical Opeperations on a Lace brayded of many thrids and ty'd it about the Arm of the Patient But instead of the expected cure Fernandez lost his Speech and was taken with such violent Convulsions that the Physitians were call'd again who all despair'd of his recovery It was expected every moment he shou'd breath his last when a Christian Lady who happen'd to come in said to the Mother of the dying Youth Why do you not send for the holy Father he will infallibly cure him She gave credit to her words and sent for Xavier He was immediately there Fernandez who had lost his Sense and lay gasping in death began to cry out and make violent motions so soon as the Father had set his Foot within the Doors but when he came into the Room and stood before the Youth he fell into howlings and dreadful wreathings of his Body which redoubled at the sight of the Cross that was presented to him Xavier doubted not but there was something of extraordinary in his Disease nor even that God for the punishment of the Mother who had made use of Diabolical Remedies had deliver'd her Son to the evil Spirits He fell on his Knees by the Bed-side read aloud the Passion of our Lord hung his Reliquiary about the Neck of the sick person and sprinkled him with Holy Water This made the fury of the Devil cease and the young Man half dead lay without motion as before Then Xavier rising up Get him somewhat to eat said he and told them what nourishment he thought proper for him After which addressing himself to the Father of the Youth When your Son added he shall be in condition to walk lead him your self for nine days successively to the Church of our Lady of the Mount where to morrow I will say Mass for him After this he departed and the next day while he was celebrating the Divine Sacrifice Fernandez on the sudden came to himself spoke very sensibly and perfectly recover'd his former health But how wonderful soever the cure of this Youth appear'd in the Eyes of all Men the Resurection of a young Maid was of greater admiration Xavier was gone on a little Journey somewhere about the Neighbourhood of Malacca to do a work of Charity when this Girl dy'd Her Mother who had been in search of the holy Man during her Daughter's sickness came to him after his return and throwing her self at his Feet all in Tears said almost the same words to him which Martha said formerly to our Lord That if he had been in Town she who was now dead had been alive but if he wou'd call upon the name of Jesus Christ the dead might be restor'd to life Xavier was overjoy'd to behold so great Faith in a Woman who was but lately baptis'd and judging her worthy of that blessing which she begg'd after having lifted up his Eyes to Heaven and silently pray'd to God some little space he turn'd towards her and said to her with much assurance Go your Daughter is alive The poor Mother seeing the Saint offer'd not to go with her to the place of Burial reply'd betwixt hope and fear That it was three days since her Daughter was interr'd 'T is no matter answer'd Xavier open the Sepulchre and you shall find her living The Mother without more reply ran full of Con●idence to the Church and in presence of many persons having caus'd the Grave-stone to be remov'd ●ound her Daughter living While these things pass'd at Malacca a Ship from Goa brought Letters to Father Xavier from Italy and Portugal which inform'd him of the happy progress of the Society of Iesus and what it had already perform'd in Germany for the publick service of the Church He was never weary of reading those Letters he kiss'd them and bedew'd them with his Tears imagining himself either with his Brethren in Europe or them present with himself in Asia He had news at the same time that there was arriv'd a supply of three Missioners whom Father Ignatius had sent him and that Don Iohn de Castro who succeeded Alphonso de Sosa in the Government of the Indies had brought them in his company These Missioners were Antonio Criminal Nicholas Lancilotti and Iohn Beyra all three Priests the two first Italians and the last a Spaniard Apostolical Men and of eminent Vertue particularly Criminal who of all the Children of Ignatius was the first who was honour'd with ●he Crown of Martyrdom Xavier dispos'd of them immediately commanding by his Letters That Lancilotti shou'd remain in the Seminary of holy Faith there to instruct the young Indians in the knowledge of the Latin Tongue and that the other two shou'd go to accompany Francis Mansilla on the Coast of Fishery For himself having waited three Months for news from Macassar when he saw the season proper for the return of the Ship which the Governour of Malacca had sent was now expir'd and that no Vessel was come from those parts he judg'd that Providence wou'd not make use of him at present for the instruction of those people who had a Priest already with them Nevertheless that he might be more at hand to succour them when ever it pleas'd God to furnish him with an occasion it was in his thoughts to go to the Neighbouring Islands of that Coast which were wholly destitute of Gospel Ministers God Almighty at that time reveal'd to him the Calamities which threatn'd Malacca both the Pestilence and the War with which it was