_ 141 _ throughout the entire day and a great part of the night. The number of sermons was such that, like it or not, he was forced to have the pulpit erected in the cloister enclosure, so that there was room and they did not suffocate. One night one of the orphan boys was directed [221v] to recite the Passion to an audience of two or three thousand souls in the Cathedral. When the child, chosen by Our Lord and helped by his innocence, began to relate the Passion, he immediately started to gasp for breath. The lamentations of the men and women were something so strange it was amazing. Thus, since Our Lord is supremely good, through His divine clemency, He did not allow the light of His grace to be denied the sinners persevering in penitence. During the past year over a hundred women have been converted. The Father marries all of those who are orphans, and he either marries off the concubines or sends them away. Others are placed in the houses of casados and he is looking for the where with all to keep them there. He makes others carry on preaching and exercise themselves in making visitations to other poor and sick women. I saw him a few days ago when he was unsuccessful with words in freeing a man from his sin. He named a price for him to desist from wrongdoing and gave him twenty
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