Storia do Mogor 330.1.7

330.1.7

On July 5 the inquisitors sent for the defendant again, and cited to him over again Bellarmino, and wrote out what this author said. After that he did not see this inquisitor again, for he died on the 17th of that month. Upon November 4, 1651, one hour after mid-day, he was once more brought out of prison and placed before the table. There he found the Archbishop, the grand inquisitor, the second inquisitor, who was a Dominican named Father Lucas de la Croix, one Observantist father, two or three more Dominicans, and one or two Jesuits, as he believes. The hall was decorated with pieces of silk. The archbishop sat at the upper end of the table, his mitre in his hand. On his right was the grand inquisitor, at his left the second — that is, Father Lucas de la Croix, Dominican. When Father Ephraim arrived close to the table the inquisitor said to him that they had seen once, and then reconsidered, the record of his case ; that they were there assembled to pass judgment ; that if he wished to say anything farther in justification he had but to speak. To that he replied that those who had censured his discourses and his writings had employed [138] sophisms, and had not acted uprightly with him. For he had advanced as the major premiss of an argument that a man consecrated by a heretic bishop (servatis servandis) [with the necessary reservations] received the attribute [of priesthood].