7, Frey Joao da Cruz, O.S.A. (+1638). 
By Rev. H. Hosten, 8.J. 
‘©The venerable John da Cruz was born of pious parents 
in the town of Alpedrina, Diocese of Guarda, in the Kingdom 
of Portugal. From his tenderest years he was vested—a pious 
custom with children—in the habit of the Friars Minor. When 
bigger, he went to India with his uncle, our Father Frey Sebas- 
tian of the Purification, who was sent thither in 1586 by Frey 
Denis of Jesus, the Superior of this Province, with the follow- 
ing companions :—Fathers Louis of Paradise, the Provincial ; 
Francis of St. Stephen, Prior of Goa; Peter of the Cross ; 
Sebastian de Moraes; Fulgentius of the H. Ghost ; John of 
the Trinity ; Didacus of the Trinity ; Francis, commonly Arpa, 
and the Chorister Matthew of St. Joseph. After landing in 
4, the second on the 11th, the third on the 18th, the fourth on 
I speak of him on the second Friday of the 
same month, believing him to have died then. His body was 
interred in the chapter of the monastery ; but later, in 1693, 
through the care of his nephew, Frey Francis da Cruz, it was 
placed in a raised tomb of black stone, where it is held in 
great veneration. All this is found related in a MS. history of 
Goa entitled Breviloguium rerum Congregationis Indiane,’ Pt. 
1 This date is apparently wrong. It must have been at the end of 
September, when Hugli fell. The siege commenced only on June 24. 
2 Complete reference : Brevilo io das noticias das couzas ¢ dos seers 
da Congregagao ndia dos Eremitas de Santo Agostinho. MS. 8 vo., foll. 
180, formerly in the Convent de Nossa a Graca, Lisbon. Cf. 
Barsosa Macuapo, Bibliotheca Lusitana, Lisboa, / i 
I am told by Fray Tirso Lopez, 0.8.A., Valladolid, that Frey Faustino de 
