The nuns were withdrawn from Pastrana in April, 1574, and then
the anger of the Princess prevailed; she sent the Life of the
Saint, which she had still in her possession, to the Inquisition,
and denounced it as a book containing visions, revelations, and
dangerous doctrines, which the Inquisitors should look into and
examine: The book was forthwith given to theologians for
examination, and two Dominican friars, of whom Banes was one,
were delegated censors of it by the Inquisition. [18]

Fra Banes did not know the Saint when he undertook her defence in
Avila against the authorities of the city, eager to destroy the
monastery of St. Joseph; [19] but from that time forth he was one
of her most faithful friends, strict and even severe, as became a
wise director who had a great Saint for his penitent.
He testifies in the process of her beatification that he was firm
and sharp with her; while she herself was the more desirous of
his counsel, the more he humbled her, and the less he appeared to
esteem her. [20] When he found that copies of her life were in
the hands of secular people,--he had probably also heard of the
misconduct of the Princess of Eboli,--he showed his displeasure
to the Saint, and told her he would burn the book, it being
unseemly that the writings of women should be made public.
The Saint left it in his hands, but Fra Banes, struck with her
humility, had not the courage to burn it; he sent it to the Holy
Office in Madrid. [21] Thus the book was in a sense denounced
twice,--once by an enemy, the second time by a friend, to save
it. Both the Saint and her confessor, Fra Banes, state that the
copy given up by the latter was sent to the Inquisition in
Madrid, and Fra Banes says so twice in his deposition. The