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ready been depofited in them ; they are faid 

 to be quite finished ; but the walls of the 

 church are not raifed to the height intended ; 

 and yet candles are continually burning in it 

 for its patron St. Francis Xavier, who fuffered 

 martyrdom from the heathens for preaching 

 the gofpel in Japan, and is faid to have 

 wrought as many miracles as there are wax 

 tapers burning round his image ; to which 

 the inhabitants pull off their hats whenever 

 they pafs by. 



Wax tapers are burning in the churches 

 day and night. At the entrance is Agua ben* 

 dita, or holy water, in a difli or veffel, into 

 which they dip their fingers, and crofs them- 

 felves when they go in and out. The church 

 pavement is every where covered with matts; 

 upon which men and women, of all ranks, 

 kneel down for want of feats. 



The bells are always ringing, but not fo as 

 with us ; for they make a noife almoft all day, 

 firft in one fteeple, then in another, then in 

 all together, for prayers, or mafs, on account 

 of lightning, or the dead : the latter is always 

 in the evening, for their mattes for the dead 

 are kept about that time. 



Rosario, 



