e favour to the Church and
to the order, on which it dwelt, to have alluded to miracles wrought by
Xavier had there been the slightest ground for believing in them; but no
such allusion appears.(292)

(292) For the work referred to, see Julii Gabrielii Eugubini orationum
et epistolarum, etc., libri duo (et) Epitola de rebus Indicis a quodam
Societatis Jesu presbytero, etc., Venetiis, 1569. The Epistola begins at
fol. 44.

So, too, when in 1588, thirty-six years after Xavier's death, the Jesuit
father Maffei, who had been especially conversant with Xavier's career
in the East, published his History of India, though he gave a biography
of Xavier which shows fervent admiration for his subject, he dwelt very
lightly on the alleged miracles. But the evolution of miraculous legends
still went on. Six years later, in 1594, Father Tursellinus published
his Life of Xavier, and in this appears to have made the first large
use of the information collected by the Portuguese viceroy and the
more zealous brethren. This work shows a vast increase in the number
of miracles over those given by all sources together up to that time.
Xavier is represented as not only curing the sick, but casting out
devils, stilling the tempest, raising the dead, and performing miracles
of every sort.

In 1622 came the canonization proceedings at Rome. Among the speeches
made in the presence of Pope Gregory XV, supporting the claims of Xavier
to saintship, the most important was by Cardinal Monte. In this the
orator selects out ten great miracles from those performed by Xavier
during his lifetime and describes them minutely. He insists that on a
certain occasion Xavier, by the sign of the cross, made sea-water fresh,
so that his fellow-passengers and the crew could drink it; that he
healed the sick and raised the dead in various places; brought back a
lost boat to his ship; was on one occasion lifted from the earth
bodily and transfigured before the bystanders; and that, to punish a
blaspheming town, he caused an earthquake and buried the offenders in
cinders from a volcano: this was afterward still more highly developed,
and the saint was represented in engravings as calling down fire from
heaven and thus destroying the town.

The most curious miracle of all is the eighth on the cardinal's list.
Regarding this he states that, Xavier having during one of his voyages
lost overboard a crucifix, it was restored to him after he had reached
the sh