The alms of well-wishers, chiefly devout women at Barcelona, amply provided him with funds.

These he employed not only in advancing his own studies, but also in securing the attachment of adherents to his cause.

At this epoch he visited the towns of Belgium and London during his vacations.

But the main outcome of his residence at Paris was the formation of the Company of Jesus.

Those long years of his novitiate and wandering were not without their uses now.