His life was written by F. Lewis Gonzales or Gonzalvo, who
was a long time the saint’s confessor, and died at Lisbon
in 1575; and again by Ribadeneira, who had intimately
conversed with the saint, and died at Madrid in 1611. It is
elegantly compiled in Latin by Maffei, who died at Tivoli
in 1603; in Italian by Bartoli, at Rome about 1650; and in
French by Bouhours, one of the ablest and most judicious of
the modern French critics in polite literature, who died
at Paris in 1704. Pinius the Bollandist gives the original
lives, Julij, t. 7, p. 409, and adds the history of many
miracles wrought by the intercession of this saint; also,
Baillet.