holy flames of her devotion at
Yuste, became her guides and counsellors; and she built and endowed no
less than three Jesuit colleges at Villagarcia, Santander, and Oviedo.
Her life of gentle and blameless enthusiasm ended in 1598, when she was
laid beside her lord in the collegiate church of Villagarcia. Amongst
the relics of that temple, two crucifixes were held in peculiar
veneration,--one being that which she had pressed to her dying lips, the
other a trophy rescued by Luis Quixada from a church burned by the Moors
in the war of the Alpuxarras.

William Van Male, the gentle and literary chamberlain, returned to
Flanders, with a slender annual pension of 150 florins, which was to be
reduced one half on his becoming keeper of the palace at Brussels, an
office of which the king had given him the reversion. He died in 1560,
and was buried in the church of St. Gudule, at Brussels, where his
widow, Hippolyta Reynen, was laid by his side in 1579.

Father Borja continued to teach and to travel with unflagging zeal. Soon
after preaching the emperor's funeral sermon, he was again in Portugal,
visiting the colleges at Evora, Coimbra, and Braga, and aiding in the
foundation of the college of Porto. Called to Rome by Pope Pius IV., to
advise on affairs of the church, he was twice chosen vicar-general of
the company; and finally, in 1565, he received the staff of Loyola.
During his rule of seven years, the order lengthened its cords and
strengthened its stakes in every part of the world, and in every
condition of mankind. Its astute politicians gained the ear of princes
and prelates who had hitherto been cold, or adverse; its colleges rose
amid the snows of Poland, and the forests of Peru; Barbary, Florida, and
Brazil, were watered with the blood of its martyrs; and its ministers of
mercy moved amongst the roar of battle, on the bastions of Malta and the
decks at Lepanto. The general of this great army visited his native
Spain, for the last time, in 1571, when he was sent by Pope Pius V. to
fan the anti-Turkish flame in the bosom of Philip II., and to add a
morsel of the true cross to the relics of the Escorial. Of the offers to
build houses for the company, which now poured in, the last that he
accepted was Dona Magdalena de Ulloa's college at Villagarcia, thus
finding, after many days, the bread which he had cast upon the waters at
Yuste. From Spain, he went to preach the crusade at the courts of
Portugal and France--an arduo