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Regis College Library 13 ST. MARY STREET TORONTO ONTARIO, CANADA M4Y 2R9 3mt& FOURTH VOLUME. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. ZUARTERLT SERIES. Conducted by the Managers ofthe Month. 1872. I. TheLifeandLetters ofSt. Francis Xamer. HENRY By the Rev. J. COLERIDGE, ofthe Society ofJesus. VOL. I. js. 6d. II. 77ie Life ofSt. Jane Frances Fremyot dc CJiantaL By EMILY BOWLES. III. TJic History ofthe Sacred Passion. By Father LUIS DE LA PALMA, of the Society ofJesus. is. 6rf. IV. 77/ Lifeand LettersofSt. Francis Xamer HENRY By the Rev. J. COLERIDGE, ofthe Society of Jesus. VOL. II. "JU P3 THE LIFE AND LETTERS, XA FRANCIS VIEP ST. BY HENRY JAMES COLERIDGE OKTHHSOCIETYOFJESUS. COLL. CHRIST! RFGIS S. MM)H BIB. TOBONIO VOLUME THE SECOND. LONDON: BURNS AND GATES, PORTMAN STREET, AND PATERNOSTER ROW. 1872. [AMrightsreserved."] To the Reader. THIS Second Volume has been delayed by causes beyond my control, the effect ofwhich I trust that the reader will forgive. Though it is considerably larger than its predecessor, I have been obliged to omit many documents illustrative ofthe text which would have made the work more complete. But it seemed better, ifpossible,to comprise the whole matter within two volumes even though the second should exceed the size originally contemplated in this Series ijian to extend the book to three. I could wish to have found room for several of the letters of the friends and companions of St. Francis, especially of Father Caspar Baertz. Some quotations from them will be found at the end of M. Leon Pages French translation of the Letters. I regret also in particular having been forced to leave out the long letter referred to at pp. 305 and 386 from Joam Fernandez, which is full ofinterest in rela tion to the questions ofthe Japanese bonzes. I must content myself with publicly thanking the kind friends who took the pains to translate it for me from the Portuguese. One cause for delay in the completion ofthe present vo lume arose from a circumstance which it may be worth while vi Postscript. to make public. I was informed in the course ofthe autumn that a collection of manuscript letters of St. Francis Xavier was in existence in Portugal, many if not all ofwhich had never been published. The same kind friends to whom I have already alluded were able to make inquiries as to this collection for me, and the result was to enable me to feel cer tain that the letters had been brought from the archives ofthe College ofthe Society at Goa in the last century, at the time ofthe suppression,but that theyhadall been alreadyexamined and translated by Father Phillippucci. There may doubtless still be existing letters of St. Francis which have never been printed, and he himselfmentions several which have certainly been lost. The King of Portugal must have received many such. But I can see no ground for hoping that any consider able number will ever be recovered. H. C. J. London, Eve ofSt. Thomas the Apostle, 1872.