[Footnote 1: el enemigo malo. That is to say, the devil.]
[Footnote 2: Pater Noster. See p. 33, note 1.]
[Footnote 3: Ave Maria. "A form of devotion used in the Church of Rome, comprising the salutation addressed by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Luke i. 28.) The words Ave Maria are the first two, in Latin, of the form as it appears in the manuals of the Roman Church, thus: ' Hail Mary (Ave Maria), full of grace, the Lord is with thee, etc.' To which is appended the following petition: 'Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and in the hour of our death. Amen.'... It was not used before the Hours, until the sixteenth century, in Romish offices." Hook's Church Dict., London, 1887, p. 72. Some say earlier.]
[Footnote 4: San Miguel = 'St. Michael.' "An archangel mentioned in the Bible. He is regarded as the leader of the whole host of angels... He is spoken of five times in the Bible, always [or to be more exact usually as fighting] John mentions him as fighting at the head of the angels against the dragon and his host." Century Dict.]
[Footnote 5: San Pacomio = 'St. Pachomius.' "Born probably in Lower Egypt, about 292: died about 349. One of the founders of monasticism. He established a monastery on the island of Tabenna in the Nile, and was the first thus to collect the monks under one roof and establish strict rules of government for the community." Century Diet.]
La priora fué á ocupar su sillón en el coro en medio de la comunidad. La hija de maese Pérez abrió con mano temblorosa la puerta de la tribuna para sentarse en el banquillo del órgano, y comenzó la Misa.
Comenzó la Misa, y prosiguió sin que ocurriese nada de notable hasta que llegó la consagración.[1] En aquel momento sonó el órgano, y al mismo tiempo que el órgano un grito de la hija de maese Pérez....
[Footnote 1: consagración = 'consecration.' "The form of words by which the bread and wine in the Mass are changed into Christ's body and blood." Addis and Arnold, Catholic Diet, London, 1884, p. 216. See also p. 101, note 2.]
La superiora, las monjas y algunos de los fieles corrieron á la tribuna.
—¡Miradle, miradle! decía la joven fijando sus desencajados ojos en el banquillo, de donde se había levantado asombrada para agarrarse con sus manos convulsas al barandal de la tribuna.