[2]. St. Francis de Borja came to Avila, where St. Teresa lived, in 1557 (De la Fuente). This passage must have been written after the foundation of St. Joseph, for it was not in the first Life, as the Saint says, [ch. x. § 11], that he kept secret the names of herself and all others.
[4]. See [Relation, viii. § 6].
[5]. Who he was is not certainly known. The Bollandists decline to give an opinion: but F. Bouix thinks it was F. Ferdinand Alvarez, who became her confessor on the removal of F. Juan de Padranos, and that it was to him she confessed till she placed herself under the direction of F. Baltasar Alvarez, the confessor of Doña Guiomar, as it is stated in the next paragraph,--unless the confessor there mentioned was F. Ferdinand.
[6]. Doña Guiomar de Ulloa. See below, [ch. xxxii. § 13].
[7]. If this confessor was F. Baltasar Alvarez, the Saint, F. Bouix observes, passes rapidly over the history of the year 1557, and the greater part, perhaps, of 1558; for F. Baltasar was ordained priest only in the latter year.
[8]. See [Relation, i. § 6].
[Chapter XXV.]
Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject.