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186 apostolic zeal was so great that, although approaching the age of seventy, the confined limits of New Spain were evidently too narrow for him, and he made more than one attempt to go to China. As if disheartened by the failure, he retired to a spot near Tlalmanalco to meditate and mortify the flesh. So severe was the self-imposed penance that he fell sick, and on being removed for nursing to Mexico, he died on the way, and was buried at Tlalmanalco.

His dress and other belongings were preserved as relics, and his grave was for years a point of attraction to worshippers. The corpse was several times disinterred. In 1567 it suddenly disappeared, by a miracle, it was said, as a chastisement for curiosity and lack of reverence. Up to that time it had shown no putrefaction. Mendieta writes that only one of his several letters had been preserved, but in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i. tom. x. 224, and in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., ii. 155, are others, speaking well for his zeal. Authorities, in addition to those elsewhere cited, that treat wholly or in part of church history: Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., iv. 456, 568-9; v. 449-50; viii. 19; xii. 281-3, 485; xi. 50-1; Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., i. pp. xlv. cxix. 487-8; Puga, Cedulario, 21, 40; ''Grijalva, Crón. S. Aug.,'' 1, 2; Oviedo, iii. 469-71; Cartas de Indias, 54-6, 712, 780-857; Libro de Cabildo, MS., 63-6; Ixtlilzochitl, Relaciones, in ''Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq.,'' ix. 429-47; ''Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 9, 10, 41; TernauxCompans, Voy.,'' série i. tom. x. 199-200; ''Vazquez, Chron. Gvat., 2-3, 19, 20, 527-35; Col. Doc. Inéd.,'' lvii. 181; Archivo Mex., Doc., i. 49-50, 92, 150-62; ii. 178-83; ''Recop. de Indias, i. 29 etc.; Ramirez, Proceso, 246-8, 299-302; Cortés, Hist. N. Esp., 208, 389-95; Peter Martyr, de Insvlis, 145-6; Prov. Sto Evangelio,'' pt. i. Mi. v.-vii. xvii.; ''Monumentos Domin. Esp., MS., 63, 255-79, 322, 360; Mex. Extr. de Cédulas, MS., 1; Fernandez, Hist. Ecles., 45-65; Dávila Padilla, Hist. Fvnd. Mex., 66-74; Rivero, Mex. in 1842, 225-7; Gonzalez Dávila, Teatro Ecles., i. 20, 25, 74-5; Frejes, Hist. Conq., 70; Morelli, Fasti Novi Orbis, 103, 112-14; Medina, Chrón. San Diego, 9; Mex., Not. Ciudad, 66; Figueroa, Vindicias, MS., 22-4, 98-110; Alegre, Hist. Comp. de Jesus, i. 180-1; Prescott's Mex.,'' ii. 96-8, ii. 265-8, 380-9; also notes in Mex. eds.; Cavo, Tres Siglos, i. 26-7; Cabrera, Escudo Armas, 404-8; Alaman, Disert., i. 198, 209, app. 109-12; ii. 109-91, app. 26-48; ''Heredia, Serm. y Disert. Guad., pt. i. 139; Pizarro y Orellana, Varones Ilvstres, 102-10; Zamacois, Hist. Mex.,'' iv. passim; v. 168-71, 496; ''Vetancvrt, Trat. Mex., 22; Id., Menologia, 32, 54-105, 149, 297-304; Id., Chrón. Sto Evangelio, 4-10; Id., Teatro Mex.,'' ii. 146; ''Mex. Hieroglyphical Fist., 1138; Granados, Tardes Am., 270-4, 298, 327-9; U. S. Cath. Mag., 1344, 488-93; Id., 1846, 263-5; Frost's Pict. Hist. Mex., 125-30; Quart. Rev.,'' 1. 214; ''Mayer's Mex. Aztec, i, 84-5; Marshall's Christian Missions,'' ii, 224-35; No less revered figures are to be found