This same year 1539, the Viceroy’s brother Don Enrico had news that the Lord Paul P.P. III deigned to raise him to the Sacred College, as Cardinal-Deacon of San Nereo e Sant’ Achilleo, the Title of which previously had been held by Cardinal Francisco de Borja, bastard of the Lord Calixtus P.P. III who died excommunicate in 1511. Setting out for Rome to receive the cardinalitial insignia, Don Enrico reached Viterbo, where he suddenly died in September 1540. His epitaph in the Vatican Basilica shews that no shame was known at this date on account of descent from the invincible Lord Alexander P.P. VI. “HENRICUS . GENTE . BORGIA . NATIONE . HISPANUS . PATRIA . VALENTINUS . ALEXANDER . VI. . PRONEPOS . DUCIS . GANDIAE . F . DUM . IN . MAXIMA . SPE . ASSURGERET . IMMATURA . MORTE . HEU . NIMIUM . RAPTUS . EST . SPIRITUS . IN . CAELO . CORPUS . HIC . QUIESCIT.” There were now no cardinals of the House of Borgia. In 1543, died the Duke Don Juan II. de Borja, father of the Viceroy Marquess of Lombay, who now succeeded to the Duchy of Gandia, the principalities of Teano and Tricarico, the counties of Chiaramonte, Lauria, and Cerignola. Having obtained Caesar’s leave to resign the Viceroyalty of Cataluna, Duke Don Francisco de Borja returned to court, where he was appointed Master of the Household of the Infanta Doña Maria de Portugal. This princess was betrothed to the Infante Don Felipe, son of Caesar Carlos V; and it appeared that worldly ties were not to be untied, but tightened for the Duke of Gandia. But the Portuguese Infanta died before marriage, her household was dispersed; and Duke Don Francisco retired to his duchy, where he began to make plans for a new college for the Company of Jesus (which perfectly had charmed him), and for a new monastery of Dominican nuns in whom his Duchess Doña Leonor was interested. * * * * * The year 1546, in a most signal manner marked the Duke of Gandia’s progress along the road of detachment from the world. The Duchess was sick. The Duke was praying for her recovery. The FIGURE on the Crucifix spoke to him. What follows here rests on sworn testimony at the subsequent process of canonization, later to be described; a formal legal process that, from its scope and stringency, demands as much consideration as the Report of a Royal Commission, or, better still, a Decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in modern England. The FIGURE on the Crucifix spoke: “—oyo una voz sensible, carinosa e distinta, que Christo articulaba desde aquella estatua muerta.”[109] IT said: “Si tu quieres que te dexe à la Duquesa mas tempo in esta vida, yo lo dexo en tu mano; pero te aviso que à ti no te conviene esto.” _If thou askest Me to leave the Duchess longer in this life, I will do so; but I warn thee that this will not be profitable to thee._[110]