Chatelain, in his additions to his Universal Martyrology, p. He often went out in the night topray before the church-doors; and in the morning waited before them tillthey were opened to assist at matins. Footnotes:1. and Annal.
Being summoned againbefore the judge, he professed his faith with greater resolution andalacrity than before, and was immediately led away just as he was, andbeheaded. At their remonstrances, Ferdinand, king of Castile, declared the Indians free, and forbade the Spaniards to employ them in carrying burdens, or to use a stick or whip in chastising them. Athanasius of thisnew inconsistent blasphemy; and that zealous defender of the adorablemystery of the Trinity, the fundamental article of the Christian faith,wrote against this rising monster. This was the Roman punishment for parricides, the worst of malefactors,yet seldom executed on them.
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