When Archbishop Loayza, the first incumbent of the see of Lima, died, in 1575, his successor was not appointed until three years later, when Archbishop Toribio Mogrovejo was named for the exalted office. His extraordinary simplicity and piety were recognized even in a capital so gay and pleasure-loving as the City of the Kings, and his name became a synonym of goodness. Many incidents are related of his charitable acts, done without ostentation, and solely from brotherly love and Christian kindness. It is said that one night he was carrying on his back a man whom he had found wounded in the street, when the watchman called out in peremptory tones: “Who goes there?” “Toribio,” was the tranquil answer, the guardian of the law immediately recognizing the good samaritan. The story of his saintly life and his many works of benevolence reveals the spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion which characterizes the best type of Spanish priest. Buckle, in his history of the civilization of Europe, says, in reference to the long list of holy men who have made Spain famous throughout the centuries as the land of _beatos_: “No other European country has produced so many ardent and disinterested missionaries, zealous, self-denying martyrs, who have cheerfully sacrificed their lives in order to propagate truths which they thought necessary to be known.” Not only in the ranks of the humble missionaries, who penetrated the forests of the Amazon and made their way through the cañons and across the mountain passes of the Andes to find their flocks among the “idolaters,” but in the highest princes of the realm, descendants of kings and lords of proud domains, were to be found examples of Christian piety and unselfishness worthy of the reverence of posterity. [Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL, LIMA.] [Illustration: CHURCH AND PLAZUELA OF SAN FRANCISCO, LIMA.]