Returning, then, [once more] to the location of the Queres nation,—[after] proceeding twelve leagues to the westward of its last pueblo, Santa Ana, one arrives at the Peñol of Ácoma which has occasioned the loss of so many lives of Spaniards and Indian friends, both on account of its being a sheer impregnable rock cliff, and because of the valor of its inhabitants, who probably number two thousand souls. Last year, 1629, God granted that we should convert them to peace, so that to-day they have a Religious who is instructing them in the Christian faith and baptizing them. And the Lord has confirmed with a miracle the virtue of this holy Sacrament of Baptism. It was thus: A year-old infant was already breathing its last in the arms of its mother, who was even now mourning it for dead. The Religious who was there teaching them, said to her that if she loved her daughter so much she should let her be baptized so that if she were to die she would enjoy eternal glory in Heaven. And even though the mother was a heathen, she believed the Father and begged him to baptize her child. To this the Religious assured her, “Then have faith, daughter, since this baptismal water is quite able to revive your daughter.” And sprinkling it upon her and repeating the words, a marvellous thing happened, for the child immediately sat up well and sound, and took to her mother’s breasts. She turned very smilingly and cooingly toward the Father, showing by her actions her gratitude for the good he had done her since she was too young to talk. Thereupon all those Indians were confirmed to the Faith, and by devotion soon learned to pray in order that they might be baptized. May God be praised for everything.[77] Some may discredit the two miracles of the children as treasured by the Church; but others feel it to be equally miraculous that the personality and ingenuity of one solitary human being could disarm the ferocity and suspicion of barbarians such as these, win their confidence, make them obedient to his teachings and induce them to adopt a better mode of life. For in these things we have every reason to believe he succeeded so long as he lived among them.