Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...of the Mother of God, the house being refounded August II, 1577. From that house the saint took some of its members for the new foundation, and whilst staying in it, having obtained through the vicar-general of Jaen the sanction of the ordinary for the foundation, purchased a house in Baeza for 1800 ducats, the greater part of which sum was furnished by Dr. Pedro Roman, prior of the church of Iznatorafe. All the preparations being made, he returned to Mount Calvary, and thence, with his religious on foot and fasting, set out for Baeza--all the furniture they had being carried by one ass--on Saturday in Whitsun week, June 13, 1579. They arrived in the evening, after a journey of nearly eighteen miles, and made preparations for the opening of the house on the following day. The next morning, which was Trinity Sunday, the little bell of the community, hung out of a window, was rung; St. John of the Cross said Mass, and took possession. Fra Francis of the Conception, prior of Penuela, and three famous doctors of the university, known in Paris and Salamanca, Bernardin de Carleval, Diego Perez K de Valdiera, and Pedro de Ojeda, were present at the ceremony.. This house was a college like that founded in Alcala de Henares in 1570, and St. John of the Cross was founder and rector. The vice-rector was Fra Juan of Jesus, commonly called the saint, who had come from Pefluela, with his prior, fra Francis of the Conception, the founder of the college in Alcala nearly nine years before. A saintly priest, Alvaro Nunez Marzelo, who had helped greatly in the second foundation of Pefluela, came to see the friars. He was shown the house and all it contained. The altar of their temporary church alone was furnished; the rest of the house was bare; and the furniture even of the ...
