HISTÓRIA DA VIDA E OBRAS DE SÃO JOÃO DE DEUS (History of life and works of John of God) CASTRO, Fr. Francisco de, O.H; CELI, Dionísio, O.H.- MIRACVLOSA | VIDA Y SANTAS OBRAS DEL | Beato Patriarca Iuan de Dios Lusitano, | fundador de la Sagrada Religion | que cura enfermos. | COMPVESTA POR EL MAESTRO | Francisco de Castro. | Aora nueuamente añadida y enmendada por vn | Religioso dela misma Orden.- En Burgos: en casa de Ioseph de Mena, 1621.- [6], 103, [1] f.; 19 cm.- E. John of God (1495-1550), was natural of Montemor-O-Novo. Pastor until the age of eight, traveled to Spain, where he had a short military career; Later he came to be fixed in Granada where, in 1539, he built an Hospital for incurable diseases; it was in this city, where he would die, who founded the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, confirmed by the bull of Pope Pius V, in 1571. John of God was beatified in 1630 and canonized in 1690. Edition of the responsibility of Fr. Dionísio Celi, O.H., based on the text of Francisco de Castro, O.H., both rectors of the Hospital of Granada. A good example of this biography of the Portuguese saint, illustrated with a engraving on the face page, depicting Jesus Christ and the saint with a very curious game of words. In this respect you should see: Francisco de La Torre Rodriguez, San Juan de Diós: Fuentes biographic clásicas... (Archivo Hospitalario, 2003, Numero 1, p. 117-134), where the author states: De esta primera y parece ser que única edición solo existe un ejemplar original conocido que se conserva en la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Preserves intact the entire flexible parchment binding of the time with laces.