Saint John of God’s indifference to contempt knew how to take on the noblest character when necessary. One day, while walking through the Albaïzin, that is to say the district inhabited by the Moors, he was the object of many abuses and insults. He was enduring them without saying a word, when one of the most insolent of this rabble, approaching him, challenged him thus: “Tell us then, Christian, what miracles did Jesus Christ perform?” The Saint answered him with a firmness full of modesty, “It is no small miracle that, amidst the outrages with which you heap upon me, He gives me the strength to suffer you, and that out of love for His law I do nothing here unworthy of the Christian name.”