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were preceded by some for his father, his mother, and his wife.

As his infirmities increased, his prayers grew longer, and his penances
more severe. He wrapped his emaciated body in hair-cloth, and flogged it
with scourges, which were afterwards found in his cell, stained with his
blood. Restless and sleepless, he would roam, ghost-like, through the
corridors of the convent, and call up the drowsy monks for the midnight
services of the church. Once he was asked by a slugglish novice, whose
slumbers he had broken, why he could not be satisfied with turning the
world upside down, but must also disturb the peace and rest which it was
reported he had come to seek at Yuste.

From all secular things and persons he kept entirely aloof. Of the
events then passing in the world, nothing stirred his curiosity or his
interest but the ruthless crusade against heresy, led by Cardinal
Valdes, the fiercest inquisitor since the days of Torquemada. For the
great northern Reformation had made itself felt, though with feeble and
transient effect, even in Spain,--as the Lisbon earthquake troubled the
waters of Lochlomond. Strange questions were stirred in the schools of
Alcala and Salamanca; new doctrines were taught from the pulpits of
Seville and Valladolid; wool-clad wolves were said to lurk even in the
folds of St. Francis and St. Dominic; and Lutheran traders ran casks of
heretical tracts upon the shores of the bay of Cadiz. Amongst the
persons arrested at Valladolid was Dr. Augustin Cazalla, canon of
Salamanca, who had been one of the emperor's preachers, and as such, had
resided, from 1546 to 1552, at the imperial court in Germany. Though he
had distinguished himself in the land of the Reformation by sermons
against its doctrines, and had returned to Spain with untarnished
orthodoxy, he was accused not only with being infected with Lutheran
principles, but of having "dogmatized," as the inquisition happily
called preaching, in a conventicle at Valladolid. Charles was much moved
when he heard of his arrest, not with pity for the probable fate of the
man, but with horror of his crime. "Father," said he to the prior, "if
there be any thing which could drag me from this retreat, it would be to
aid in chastising heretics. For such creatures as these, however, this
is not necessary; but I have written to the inquisition to burn them
all, for none of them will ever become true Catholics, or are worthy to
live." This recommendation, seld