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Saint John of the Cross, Saint Teresa, Saint Francis de Sales. “Well, perhaps mine—in their way—are of chivalry too. ∻ut your ancestor’s books were only ones of chivalry, surely?” ∻ut like my ancestor, perhaps, I put my trust most in old books written before Jone was born.” “No longer at the end of Mass do you read those words of Saint John—‘He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not.’ ” Your second Vatican Council put even Saint John out of date.” ∻ut the voice of the Church doesn’t date, Sancho.” You believe in them just as much as he did in his books.” ∻ut you continue to read those old books of theology. “I’ve never read a book of chivalry in my life.” He believed in all those books of chivalry, quite out of date even in his day.” “You know, father, you remind me of your ancestor. “There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one’s brain like barnacles to a boat.” Belief dies away like desire for a woman.”

God, the Trinity, the Immaculate Conception.” ∺ll the same you do believe all that nonsense. I have read more books, that is all, when I was studying, but one forgets.” “Oh, I am as ignorant as anyone in the parish. Who knows what he thinks at night in his bed when he has said his prayers?” I doubt if anyone is ever fully converted.” “To preach to the converted as you do here?” How Monsignor Quixote Set Off on His Travels “If there were no heretics, Teresa, there would be little for a priest to do.” So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear.

They travel in an aging, cranky automobile, called “Rocinante” of course! His “Sancho” is the Communist former mayor of the village, who shares a surname with the Don’s squire. Father Quixote is the priest of El Toboso and a purported descendant of the Don. Monsignor Quixote is set in post-Franco Spain.