All this constitutes a real array of magic invocation in the efficacy
of which there is great confidence to avoid evil, ridding of danger,
securing more good, and attaining some grace. As an example of the
power of the invocations and what can be obtained by merely saying
frequently "Jesus, Maria, y Jose" (Jesus, Mary, and Joseph), which
constitutes the most "divine trinity on earth," the following cases
are related: (Novena a Jesus, Maria y Jose, Manila, 1903).
A bad man walking in the middle of the night in front of the church of
San Francisco in Cuzco, Peru, saw lights in the cemetery, and knowing
it to be a funeral, went to the place to witness it. Presently he
noted that there was a throne where Jesus Christ was found seated
between Mary and Joseph. Then several demons appeared, each one with a
book in his hand. One of them began accusing a bad woman from Buenos
Aires. "Jesus," says the Novena, "pronounced a sentence against her
of instant death and with it eternal perdition" (p. 7). The demon
disappeared in order to execute the sentence. Another devil read from
his book that in Chile there was another bad woman. "Jesus sentenced
her to death and condemnation" (p. 8). The devil ran to carry out the
sentence. Another one appeared accusing a bad man of Cuzco, and this
man was precisely the same who tarried to witness the scene at the
cemetery. "When the just judge was about to sentence him to death and
condemnation, Blessed Mary and Joseph knelt before the divine Master,
asking mercy on behalf of the accused, alleging that many times he
invoked the holy names (Jesus, Maria y Jose). Jesus having denied
pardon, his parents begged him anew, and seeing that they were not
making headway toward securing pardon, the Blessed Virgin showed to
her Blessed Son the breast from which He sucked, and the Patriarch
Saint showed him the hands that maintained him thru his labors"
(p. 8). Then Jesus conceded the pardon as a matter of grace which can
only be characterized as material gratefulness (estomago agradecido).