. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . tely in love was the cause that induced himshortly afterwards to renounce the magnificenceof this world. In December of the same year,1666, he joined the companions of Pedro deBethencourt, who had founded at Guatemala theBethlehem House of Charity, devoted to thecare of the convalescent poor after their dis-charge from the hospital. On the death ofBethencourt, in 1667, he raised his noble prose-lyte to the headship of the house, recommendingto him that the brotherhood be converted into amonastic order. The courtly caballero, fromthat mome
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . tely in love was the cause that induced himshortly afterwards to renounce the magnificenceof this world. In December of the same year,1666, he joined the companions of Pedro deBethencourt, who had founded at Guatemala theBethlehem House of Charity, devoted to thecare of the convalescent poor after their dis-charge from the hospital. On the death ofBethencourt, in 1667, he raised his noble prose-lyte to the headship of the house, recommendingto him that the brotherhood be converted into amonastic order. The courtly caballero, fromthat moment, applied all his talents, activity andperseverance to the fulfillment of his predeces-sors wishes. Transformed into Fray Rodrigode la Cruz, he gave extraordinary impetus to theinstitution, and, when the King, Don Carlos II.,rewarded his services in Costa Rica with thetitle of Marquis of Talamanca, he preferred thetonsure to the trefoiled crown. After found-ing hospitals in Peru and Mexico, he went sev-eral times to Madrid and Rome to secure the ap-. Don IIoDIíKIo AlilAS . y AS FkaV lidDIIICO ClilZ, (¡KXICKAl. OK Till: OliDKIi OF UeTH I .El 1 KM . Thin liaiitlsorne puinting of the Spaiiisli scliool of llic ITlli ceutury ciimuutesfrimi llic Convent of HuulaH de Belén in Ciiiaternalii and is miw the properly of theaullior. CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 357 proval of the statutes of the new Order of Beth-lehem. He met with the greatest difficulties,which were only overcome by his admirable ten-acity and the powerful help given him by theQueen Mother, Doña María Ana de Austria, theDuchess of Abejero, wife of the Duke of Arcos,in whose house he was entertained, and otherpowerful personages. At the end of many yearsof struggle, he saw his efforts cro^^Tied with suc-cess, and, by election of his brothers, became thefirst General of the Bethlehemite Order. Hedied in Mexico in 1716, at the age of seventy-sixyears.* *Dr. Don Francisco Antonio de Montalvo—Tida
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