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and vented his wrath on the prince, his son and heir, whom, 

 he foully put to death, 



This prince, whose name we cannot find out, had with the 

 help of a Portuguese slave, name also unknown, sheltered 

 and favoured the Christians, with the intention of becoming 

 one himself. But he received instead at the hands of his 

 cruel father the baptism of blood with the same resignation 

 and joy as he would have received the baptism by water. 

 God afterwards confirmed the martyrdom of his servant by 

 miraculous signs ; for there appeared over his tomb a 

 most beautiful cross of large size, cut out and traced upon 

 the earth as if it had been artificially made. The infidels, 

 unable to bear the dazzling light which radiated from it, 

 and which convinced their very eyes of their errors, 

 became more obdurate than ever, and shielding their eyes, 

 covered up the glorious sign with earth : thus attempting to 

 stamp out by human means the Divine impression, and the 

 admirable and marvellous things God shows his saints. But 

 incontinently it returned and became more lustrous than 

 ever, as if the holy bones were bursting up and renewing 

 the living rays of the cross. Twice they returned and 

 covered it up with earth ; but it ever returned and 

 renewed itself — an event truly marvellous, and to which 

 great belief ought to be attached, because of the authority 

 and the religion of the author who wrote it. Moreover he 

 says that many Gentiles, beholding both heaven and earth 

 testifying to the mysteries of the Cross and to the truth of 

 our Holy Faith, received it with baptism in spite of the 

 tyrant, whose anger rekindling with renewed fire put a 

 great number to the sword. These creatures, filled with the 

 power of grace, exhorted and convinced one another of the 

 faith, and from catechumenists became preachers. 



In this work a sister of the king distinguished herself, and 

 by her persuasion her nephew, son of the same barbarian, a 

 brother of the martyr and his first cousin, son of this princess, 

 became Christians, who, fearing the king's anger, came to 

 Goa, where they were received by Martin Alonso de Sosa, at 



