es of Xavier's time wrote nothing regarding his miracles, and
certainly the ignorant natives of India and Japan did not commit any
account of his miracles to writing. Nevertheless, the miracles of
healing given in Bouhours were more numerous and brilliant than ever.
But there was far more than this. Although during the lifetime of Xavier
there is neither in his own writings nor in any contemporary account any
assertion of a resurrection from the dead wrought by him, we find that
shortly after his death stories of such resurrections began to appear.
A simple statement of the growth of these may throw some light on the
evolution of miraculous accounts generally. At first it was affirmed
that some people at Cape Comorin said that he had raised one person;
then it was said that there were two persons; then in various
authors--Emanuel Acosta, in his commentaries written as an afterthought
nearly twenty years after Xavier's death, De Quadros, and others--the
story wavers between one and two cases; finally, in the time of
Tursellinus, four cases had been developed. In 1622, at the canonization
proceedings, three were mentioned; but by the time of Father Bouhours
there were fourteen--all raised from the dead by Xavier himself during
his lifetime--and the name, place, and circumstances are given with much
detail in each case.(294)

(294) The writer in the Catholic World, already referred to, has based
an attack here upon a misconception--I will not call it a deliberate
misrepresentation--of his own by stating that these resurrections
occurred after Xavier's death, and were due to his intercession or the
use of his relics. The statement of the Jesuit father is utterly without
foundation, as a simple reference to Bouhours will show. I take the
liberty of commending to his attention The Life of St. Francis Xavier,
by Father Dominic Bouhours, translated by James Dryden, Dublin, 1838.
For examples of raising the dead by the saint DURING HIS LIFETIME, see
pp. 69, 82, 93, 111, 218, 307, 316, 321--fourteen cases in all.

It seems to have been felt as somewhat strange at first that Xavier
had never alluded to any of these wonderful miracles; but ere long a
subsidiary legend was developed, to the effect that one of the brethren
asked him one day if he had raised the dead, whereat he blushed deeply
and cried out against the idea, saying: "And so I am said to have raised
the dead! What a misleading man I am! Some men brought a yout