Storia do Mogor 281.22.1

281.22.1

By everything relating to this marriage that I have just recounted, you can see to what point complaisance for these Christians is carried by the reverend Jesuit fathers, for I can assure you it is everywhere the same. The judicious Christian reader can pass judgment better than I can on this indulgent attitude, and decide what harm it must have done to our holy religion. I have not proposed to myself anything beyond a statement of the bare facts, and on these each man can make his own reflections. Let those who can and ought to apply a remedy do so according as they may judge best, but I pass on to other things which will not be found any less strange. Since first the Christian religion was established in the world, it has till now been a thing unheard of to have nocturnal processions. But the reverend fathers have begun this novelty, making no scruple, from their first occupation of the cure of Pondicherry, to imitate the Hindus in this matter ; I give here a description of one held in the night between the 14th and the 15th of the month of August [1701] on the Feast of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin.