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 Christophorus Colonus, imploring the assistance of Christ in that dangerous passage, went over safe himself and his company, that those Indian nations might become citizens and inhabitants of the Church triumphant in Heaven; for it is to be believed, that many souls, which the Devil expected to make a prey of, had they not passed through the water of baptism, were by him made inhabitants and dwellers in the eternal glory of Heaven."

 

Fray Luys de Escobar (Las 400, p. 2, ff. 41,) says that the souls which were in limbo, and came out with Christ, did not rise with him; for St. John the Baptist was there, and came out, and yet did not rise from the dead, because his head is upon earth at this day; whereas if the Resurrection had taken effect in him, and he had actually ascended into Heaven with the Messiah, it is perfectly