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e whole world, sighs at the consideration of its vanity and slavery,and of her distance from heaven, labors dai In this manner he conducted her back to his desert, and shut her up in acell behind his own. He had despised all things for the love ofheaven. Footnotes:1.

In 1595, he established asecond residence of Jesuits, at Nanquin; and made himself admired themby teaching the true figure of the earth, the cause of lunar eclipses,&c. After suffering extreme hunger and thirst, with other hardships, duringan imprisonment of many months, the confessors were brought before thepresident, and made a glorious confession. The noble lady Jazdundocta was brought thither, and earnestlypressed to throw but a feather at the martyr, that she might seem toobey the order of the king. Theywho, when the temple at Daphne was consumed about the same time, bylightning, pretended that it was set on fire by