[112] Vieyra, the great Portuguese Jesuit, said that all miracles were possible to God, but yet that he had never heard that our Lord had ever cured anyone of folly.
[113] Now a province of the Argentine Republic.
[114] ‘Historia Paraquariæ’, book xii., cap. xii.
[115] La Plata was sometimes called Chuquisaca, and is to-day known as Sucre.
[116] ‘Histoire du Paraguay’, vol. i., book ix., p. 478.
[117] Charlevoix, vol. i., book xi. Dean Funes, in his ‘Ensayo de la Historia Civil de Paraguay, Buenos Ayres y Tucuman’, vol. ii., book iii., p. 10 (Buenos Ayres, 1816), says of him: ‘Se adquirió muy en breve una reputacion mas brillante que solida.’
[118] But besides putting into execution all his histrionic talents, he had the adroitness to address himself to those feelings of self-interest which he knew were perhaps more powerful than those of admiration and respect for his own saintly proceedings in his new diocese. Crétineau Joly, in his ‘Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus’, vol. iii., p. 333 (Paris, 1845), tells us that Cardenas ‘parle aux Espagnols, il s’addresse à leurs interêts, il réveille les vieux levain de discorde . . . et il accuse les missionnaires d’être seuls les apôtres de la liberté des Indiens.’
[119] ‘Oraculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia’ (Amsterdam, en casa de Juan Blau, 1659).