1. Antonio de Ahumada; who, according to the most probable
opinion, entered the Dominican monastery of St. Thomas, Avila.
It is said that he died before he was professed. Some said he
joined the Hieronymites; but this is not so probable (De la
Fuente). Ribera, however, says that he did enter the novitiate of
the Hieronymites. but died before he was out of it
(lib. i. ch. vi.).

2. Juana Suarez, in the Monastery of the Incarnation, Avila.

3. See Relation, vi. section 3.

4. The nuns sent word to the father of his child's escape, and of
her desire to become a nun, but without any expectation of
obtaining his consent. He came to the monastery forthwith, and
"offered up his Isaac on Mount Carmel" (Reforma,
lib. i. ch. viii. section 5).

5. The Saint entered the Monastery of the Incarnation Nov. 2,
1533, and made her profession Nov. 3, 1534 (Bollandists and
Bouix). Ribera says she entered November 2, 1535; and the
chronicler of the Order, relying on the contract by which her
father bound himself to the monastery, says that she took the
habit Nov. 2, 1536, and that Ribera had made a mistake.

6. Her father took her from the monastery in the autumn of 1535,
according to the Bollandists, but of 1538, according to the
chronicler, who adds, that she was taken to her uncle's
house--Pedro Sanchez de Cepeda--in Hortigosa, and then to
Castellanos de la Canada, to the house of her sister, Dona Maria,