[1]. F. Yepes, then prior of St. Jerome's, Toledo (De la Fuente).
[2]. Don Alonzo Velasquez, canon of Toledo, to whom [Relation xi.] is addressed. The Saint speaks of this in a letter to Fra Gratian in 1576. The letter is numbered 82 in the edition of Don Vicente, and 23 in the fourth volume of the edition of Doblado.
[3]. Fra Jerome Gratian (De la Fuente).
[4]. 1 St. Peter iv. 13: "Communicantes Christi passionibus, gaudete."
[5]. This took place in 1575, when she was going to found her monastery in Seville (Ribera, l. iv. c. v. n. 110).
[7]. This was in 1575, when the Saint was founding the monastery of Seville; and the brother was Don Lorenzo, returned from the Indies, and who now placed himself under the direction of his sister (De la Fuente).
[8]. In the Chapter "De la Clausura," § 16: "De tratar con deudos se desvien lo mas que pudieren."
[9]. The monastery of Paterna, of the unreformed Carmelites. This was in 1576 (De la Fuente).