Storia do Mogor 281.19.6

281.19.6

Only two Christians died in prison, and these of a natural death, and by order of the king their bodies were burnt in the Hindu fashion. Only two reverend fathers, Portuguese Jesuits, were made prisoners in this persecution ; of these, one died of dysentery. A third priest, a Frenchman, being quicker and smarter than the others, as soon as he heard of the persecution, made on foot for the nearest place flying his country's flag. Thence he talks and blusters, not about suffering, not being accustomed to it, but of the wars that all the Christian nations, above all, those of the Catholic faith, ought to wage, as he says, against the said King of Tanjor in revenge for the evil and harm he has done to them, and continues to do, in the persons of the Christians, his subjects. A clever embellisher! But I am not sure that, be it remarked in passing, he believes in blows, in case the movements of his altogether apostolic zeal should be listened to, and produce them [for himself].