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April 29 ~ Venerable and Calloused, Wily 'though Decaffeinated, Father Thomas The Venerable Franciscan Priest Thomas Carrasco, son of Juan Gonzales Carrasco and Phelipa de Abreu; a native of Seville; took on the habit in the Convent of Our Father San Francisco, in Mexico City, the 28th of February, in the year 1603. Continuous in prayer, he had, from the hours spent on his knees, callouses and hardened joints. Elected Teacher of Novices, he feigned deafness and incomprehension; a few days later he removed their habits from those not meant for the Religious life. He was so beside himself in contemplation that, when he spoke, he appeared more dreaming than awake. In the final years of old age he doubled his mortifications and gave up the drinking of chocolate, vanquishing nature with the valor of grace. His Religious life ended in the Convent of Puebla, the 29th of April, of the year 1662. from "Menologio Franciscano" Fr. Agustin de Vetancurt, 1698 tr. Magister Levitatorum %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%