[112] Vieyra, the great Portuguese Jesuit, said that all miracles were possible to God, but yet that he had never heard that our Lord had ever cured anyone of folly. [113] Now a province of the Argentine Republic. [114] ‘Historia Paraquariæ’, book xii., cap. xii. [115] La Plata was sometimes called Chuquisaca, and is to-day known as Sucre. [116] ‘Histoire du Paraguay’, vol. i., book ix., p. 478. [117] Charlevoix, vol. i., book xi. Dean Funes, in his ‘Ensayo de la Historia Civil de Paraguay, Buenos Ayres y Tucuman’, vol. ii., book iii., p. 10 (Buenos Ayres, 1816), says of him: ‘Se adquirió muy en breve una reputacion mas brillante que solida.’ [118] But besides putting into execution all his histrionic talents, he had the adroitness to address himself to those feelings of self-interest which he knew were perhaps more powerful than those of admiration and respect for his own saintly proceedings in his new diocese. Crétineau Joly, in his ‘Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus’, vol. iii., p. 333 (Paris, 1845), tells us that Cardenas ‘parle aux Espagnols, il s’addresse à leurs interêts, il réveille les vieux levain de discorde . . . et il accuse les missionnaires d’être seuls les apôtres de la liberté des Indiens.’ [119] ‘Oraculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia’ (Amsterdam, en casa de Juan Blau, 1659). [120] Charlevoix. [121] Exod. 32:27. [122] The arroba is about twenty-five pounds weight. [123] Charlevoix. [124] Camalote is a species of water-lily which forms a thick covering on stagnant rivers and lakes in Paraguay and in the Argentine Republic. [125] This was untrue, as the Jesuit missions were not at that time (1644) apportioned into parishes under the authority of the Jesuits, and such tribute as then was customary was all collected by government officials. [126] This was also untrue, as the tithes were never regulated in Paraguay till 1649. [127] This accusation was quite untrue, for the edict referred to was not obtained under misapprehension, but after a complete exposition of all the facts. Moreover, it was subsequently renewed on several occasions by the Spanish Kings. [128] The Venetians did not expel the Jesuits, they left Venetia of their own accord. [129] Fathers Montoya and Taño went respectively to Rome and to Madrid to lay the sorrows of the Indians before the King and Pope. Having obtained the edict from the King that Cardenas referred to, and a brief from the Pope (Urban VIII.) forbidding slavery, they had the hardihood to appear within the city of San Paulo and affix both edicts to the church door. As was to be expected, the Paulistas immediately expelled them from their territories, and hence the semi-truth of the sixth charge made by Bishop Cardenas. [130] Funes, ‘Historia Civil del Paraguay, Buenos-Ayres, y Tucuman’. [131] The testimony of Funes is as follows: ‘Á juicio de testigo ocular no es más admirable la sangre fria de sus capellanes’ (‘Historia Civil del Paraguay’, book iii., cap. viii.).