he was a good confessor with a reputation for fervent preaching but practiced silence and solitude
encouraging and instructing them in the Catholic faith during their persecutions to remain chaste and faithful
he tried to convert Japan but returned to India before dying at sea in 1552 on his way to China
whereupon the Infant Jesus predicted he would be crucified with Him in Jerusalem and Dismas accompany Him to Paradise
and despite her private suffering of disabling illnesses the last 20 years of her life
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