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Among the newly converted there was a young man, a son of one of the principal sorcerers. On a certain occasion, the latter undertook to pervert his son and dissuade him from what the father taught. When the friar was informed of it, he left the convent with a crucifix in his hands and, filled with apostolic spirit, he went to the place where the infernal minister was perverting that soul and began to remonstrate with him saying, "It is not sufficient that you yourself want to go to hell without desiring to take your son also?" Addressing the young man, he said, "Son, I am more your father and I love you more than he, for he wants to take you with him to the suffering of hell, while I wish you to enjoy the blessings of being Christian." With divine zeal, he advanced these and other arguments. The old sorcerer arose, grasped a large club nearby, and struck the blessed father such a blow on the head that he felled him, and then he and the others dragged him around the plaza and ill-treated him cruelly.