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particularly with the wisdom, sanctity, and high example of Padre 

 Juan Sebastian, whose memory will last for many centuries in that 

 Kingdom. 



1253. The College of San Pablo has the lower Latin school and 

 the regular professorial chairs of Prime and Vespers, of Philosophy, 

 Theology, and Scripture. Its founders were Licentiate Juan Martinez 

 de Rengifo and Diego de Porras Sugredo, its distinguished bene- 

 factor ; and as the foresight of this Order is well known, they have 

 engaged in installing farms and limekilns to give them an income 

 for their building, and now that they have that enterprise established, 

 they are putting up a new church, and since this is the most modern 

 in construction, their good choice will give it the advantage over all 

 the other churches of that city. 



1254. As regards the exactitude, neatness, and nice attention with 

 which they treat all details of divine service, it would appear that 

 they are supreme and carry off the palm. Their novitiate has a 

 marvelous church already finished ; its founder was Antonio Correa, 

 a noble and highly regarded personality in that city, where God gave 

 him much wealth, but better still, the inspiration to carry out during 

 his life and by his own exertions, this and other remarkable works ; 

 nor did he forget his native town of Valdemoro, where he left other 

 grand memorials, not only for his relatives but also for the benefit 

 of the poor. 



1255. It is remarkable how much good this sainted Order accom- 

 plishes in its activities for individuals, which conduce to the universal 

 benefit of human souls, an acknowledged benefit to all social condi- 

 tions ; and besides the high opinion held by everyone in regard to its 

 pulpit and confessional, it has a congregation of priests to which 

 repair with exemplary confidence the Ecclesiastical Chapter, another 

 congregation of students, and another of laymen, comprising 800 

 men of every station in the republic ; this can serve as a model to 

 all such organizations the world over, for it contains many persons 

 well known for their high virtues ; they visit the hospitals and prisons. 

 They have a contract covering Masses for the dead ; everyone con- 

 tributes 8 reals for his quota which is the alms for one Mass, and 

 they have a fund ; in fact, even before the dying member has expired, 

 the deputy for the month, who is one of the 12 directors, each serving 

 in turn, takes a certificate from the treasurer based on the book 

 recording the quotas for each one of the death Masses, and certifies 

 that he is not in arrears for Masses, for if he is they will not say 

 the Mass ; he at once signs the draft on the Prefect and Father of 

 the Congregation, and at sight of this draft they turn over to him 30c 



