Letter (number unidentified). To Mother Inés de Jesus, Prioress of Medina del Campo, Convent of the Incarnation, Avila, 1572

The Saint sends St. yo/in of the Cross to Medina, to exorcise a nun.

My daughter,

1AM much distressed about Sister Isabel of St. Jerome's illness and am sending you the holy friar John of the Cross, to whom God has given power to drive devils out of the possessed. A

A nun of the Incarnation, sister of the preceding one, who tried the Reform first at Toledo and then at Malagon and finally returned to the Incarnation.

' Corrected by Pere Grégoire from the process of beatification of St. John of the Cross, drawn up at Segovia in 1628.

short time ago, he deUvered a person here from three legions of demons, each of whom, on his commanding it by the divine power to reveal its name, immediately obeyed.