We Made No Long Stay In A Place Where They Stopped Their Ears
Against The Voice Of God, But Returned
To the foot of that mountain
which we had left some days before; we were surrounded, as soon as
we
Began to preach, with a multitude of auditors, who came either in
expectation of being instructed, or from a desire of gratifying
their curiosity, and God bestowed such a blessing upon our
apostolical labours that the whole village was converted in a short
time. We then removed to another at the middle of the mountain,
situated in a kind of natural parterre, or garden; the soil was
fruitful, and the trees that shaded it from the scorching heat of
the sun gave it an agreeable and refreshing coolness. We had here
the convenience of improving the ardour and piety of our new
converts, and, at the same time, of leading more into the way of the
true religion: and indeed our success exceeded the utmost of our
hopes; we had in a short time great numbers whom we thought capable
of being admitted to the sacraments of baptism and the mass.
We erected our tent, and placed our altar under some great trees,
for the benefit of the shade; and every day before sun-rising my
companion and I began to catechise and instruct these new Catholics,
and used our utmost endeavours to make them abjure their errors.
When we were weary with speaking, we placed in ranks those who were
sufficiently instructed, and passing through them with great vessels
of water, baptised them according to the form prescribed by the
Church.
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