Storia do Mogor 265.6.6

265.6.6

Ten days before the term at which the woman was to receive liberty to marry again I arrived in Goa. The Theatine fathers informed me of the case, and begged of me to try some remedy. I sent for the young man, and found him suffering from obstruction of the spleen, and his body swollen. Having put the necessary questions, I found that if freed from this complaint he would be capable of matrimony. I advised him to go to the Lord Archbishop and ask him for forty days more for treatment, after which, if he was not restored, the said lady might take another husband. His Illustriousness gave permission. I set to work at once to get rid of the obstruction, and gave him sustaining and fortifying medicine. In this way the youth became capable of marrying, and going before the Lord Archbishop, demanded his wife. The Archbishop called for the chief physician and the chief surgeon to test his statements. . . . They admitted that he was entitled to be married, and reported truthfully to the Lord Archbishop ; and the latter told the man to take his wife to his house. This was against her will, for she had taken a dislike to him, fancying he would be as heretofore. Afterwards she found out he was as she wanted, and they lived happily.