The day that the captain-major Pedro Álvares Cabral raised the cross . . . was the third of May, when we celebrate the creation of the Holy Cross on which Christ Our Redeemer died for us, and for this reason he named the land that he had discovered Santa Cruz, and by this name it was known for many years. However, inasmuch as the devil, with the sign of the cross, lost all dominion that he had over men, and feared losing as well the great share that he had over those of this land, he endeavored that the first name be forgotten and the name of Brazil remain, because of a wood so called, fiery red in color, with which they dye cloths, rather than that of the divine wood, which gave color and virtue to all the sacraments of the Church.