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[English Translation] port, that it would please him to crown his labor with the entire conversion of all these peoples, & wanting that the next day all sorts of miracles should be performed before this great assembly in order to seal the doctrine of his preaching, & to imprint it vividly in the hearts of these poor pagans. The news was no sooner spread through the city of what was to happen the next day than the greater part of them found themselves in the square that day with the sick, the crippled, the blind, the dropsical, the paralitic, the epileptic, and other people suffering from incurable diseases. The Senators and deputies of the Provinces were also there, but in disguised clothes, for fear of being recognized, to see if this holy man would perform the miracles he had promised them. When the hour came, he went to the square accompanied by the bailiffs and sergeants of the President, for fear that he might be offended or hurried, having arrived at the top of the steps of this great temple, he went up to a room that had been prepared for him, where after having said prayers, he preached to them about the occasion of his coming to these countries, continuing the subject of which he had spoken before the Senate, but with other words |
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