Storia do Mogor 331.4

331.4

The father preached on festivals and Sundays after the Gospel in the Mass with great zeal and much fervour of mind, teaching good life, good thoughts, and good deeds ; this not only by words but still more by his good life, his good example, and the practice of all virtues, monastic and evangelical. To give greater weight to all this, he abstracted from the Holy Gospel the mysteries of our salvation, and drew them up in the form of a catechism by question and answer. All that was in Portuguese ; he made all his scholars read it and learn it by heart. It is a work from which those of greater age have derived much profit, to the good of their souls, whence it results that it was of benefit to everybody. In addition, this friar built a neat devotional church, well provided with ornaments, and in it divine service is celebrated with great propriety and devotion, a thing which raises our minds to God.