GABRIEL, an Italian Jesuit, was born in 1689. Having entered the Order of Jesus, he was despatched by that fraternity to Lisbon. There, in process of time, he raised himself to notoriety by his pretensions to sanctity and supernatural intercourse with heaven. Yet this very prominence subjected him to a greater amount of the suspicion with which the government of Portugal at that period regarded the Jesuits. Accordingly, in 1758, Malagrida was apprehended on the charge of being privy to a conspiracy against the crown. Instead of being arraigned before a civil tribunal, he was delivered into the power of the Inquisition. Accused before that court of having written two books relating his interviews with the Virgin Mary and her mother St Anne, Malagrida was condemned as a heretic, and was burnt at the stake in September 1761.