d, it is enough!" and
that he opened his cassock before his breast, to give a little air to
those flames which burnt within him, by which he declared, that he was
not able to support the abundance of heavenly consolations; and at the
same time gave us to understand, that he would have rather chosen to
suffer any torments for the service of God, than to have enjoyed all
those spiritual delights; so that his true meaning, was a prayer to God,
that he would please to reserve for him those pleasures in another life,
and in the mean time, would not spare, to inflict on him any pains or
sufferings in this present world.

These interior employments did not hinder him from the labours of his
ministerial vocation, nor from succouring the distressed in the hospitals
and prisons. On the contrary, the more lively and ardent the love of God
was in him, the more desirous He was to bring it forth, and kindle it in
others. His charity caused him often to relinquish the quiet of solitude,
and the delights of prayer; therein following the principle of his Father
Ignatius, that it was necessary to forsake God for God.

The season began to be more moderate, and Xavier was disposing himself to
set sail for the Cape of Comorine, when a Portuguese vessel arrived from
Mozambique, which brought in her live missioners of the society. The most
considerable of these missioners, and of five others which came along
with the fleet, was Caspar Barzaeus, a Fleming by nation. Father Francis
had already heard speak of him, as an excellent labourer, and a famous
preacher; but his presence, and the testimony of all the ship, gave the
saint such great ideas of his merit, that he looked on him from
thenceforward as an apostle of the eastern countries.

He passed five days with these new companions, on the fourth of which he
caused Father Gaspar to preach before him, that he might see his talent
for the pulpit; and discovered in him all the qualities of a perfect
preacher. Many Portuguese gentlemen, who had been much edified by the
virtues and conversation of Barzaeus during all the navigation, which had
been exceeding dangerous, came and fell at the feet of Xavier, desiring
that he would please to receive them into the society. The captain of the
ship, and the governor of one of the chief citadels, which the Portuguese
enjoy in India, were of the number. He admitted some of them before his
departure, and deferred the rest till his return; but he would that