_ 181 _ time scourging themselves, and I implored Our Lord God’s advice as to how to proceed so that our faith would not be discredited. The Moors were determined to use their power to prevent any of their number from becoming a Christian. They showered ridicule on us and they shouted it us from one of their mosques which overlooked the college that I had built, known as Good Jesus College, because of this, I understood from Our Lord that it would be right to destroy their power, as David had done with Goliath. So, at night, when I had finished preaching about the Passion, we shouldered a cross large enough for two men to carry inn procession and made our way through the centre of town to the mountains from which the Moors had hurled insults at the Cross of Christ, and with stone and lime, we erected it at the highest point. In the morning, when the Moors saw the mosque taken, millions of them assembled and, for fear of the cross, uttered loud cries against Mohammed, because he had not avenged the insult of the Franks, which is what they called us. Then they abandoned all the mosques that they had in the countryside, notably a large one called Gilabatha, where they all indulged in great
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