[Sidenote: _Historias sagradas_] _Historias sagradas y eclesiásticas morales_ was also written in the years during which Bishop Villarroel was a resident of Santiago. It was divided into fifteen _coronas_, each _corona_ into seven _consideraciones_, and each of the latter into _historias_. The mystical significance and religious use of these divisions are pointed out by the author, but neither the explanation nor the book itself makes any effective appeal to modern thinking; in fact, only the _Gobierno eclesiástico pacífico_ retains a place among books at present useful. Villarroel’s other works are important chiefly as illustrating the mental attitude of a distinguished ecclesiastic of South America in the seventeenth century. [Sidenote: Villarroel: “Tengo a Lima en el corazón”] [Sidenote: In Arequipa and Las Charcas] In spite of the esteem in which he was held by the inhabitants of Santiago, Villarroel felt himself an exile in Chile. His thoughts always turned with longing towards Lima, the scene of his youth and early manhood, and of the development of his religious life. “Tengo a Lima en el corazón” was often the refrain of his conversation. But in spite of absence the Spanish court had kept his memory green in Spain, and in 1651 he was promoted to the bishopric of Arequipa, where he enjoyed a larger income and a more benignant climate, and where, by his control of more extensive means, he was able to expand the field of his charity. Even his library he distributed among various monasteries, and shortly after his transfer to Las Charcas, as archbishop, he died leaving no earthly possessions, and he was buried at the expense of his chaplain. Bernardo Torres, chronicler of the Augustinians, asked him for data concerning his life, and received this answer: “Nací en Quito en una casa pobre, sin tener mi madre un pañal en que envolverme; porque se había ido a España mi padre; entreme fraile, y nunca entró en mi la frailía; porteme vano, y aunque estudié mucho, supe menos delo que de mí juzgaban otros.”[181] IV [Sidenote: _Semana espiritual_] [Sidenote: San Nicolás and Bautista de Toro]