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352 was not quite immaculate. It is said that their first venerable rector, Father Andrade, a Portuguese by birth, had his face cruelIy slashed with a knife by a lady of Orotava. The cause of this act was not discovered; but by the party who favoured the Jesuits, the blame of it was made to rest on her who bad been the assailant. The public, however, took a different view of the matter, and found an explanation of the disreputable affair in the misconduct of the Jesuit. They had unfortunately other instances of a total disregard of moral rectitude, on the part of these venerable fathers, to confirm them in this belief. One of them was stabbed to death by an injured husband, who had discovered him in an intrigue with his wife, whom the holy brother had seduced from the path of rectitude, the narrowness of which the sacred order did not always find quite convenient.