Storia do Mogor 332.1.1

332.1.1

Certificate by the Reverend Father Manuel, Vice-Commissary-General of the Order of Our Seraphic Father Saint Francis, set over all the Friars of that Observance upon the Coast of Choromandal [142]. [September 23, 1650.] I, the undersigned, Father Manuel de St. Joseph, a professed religious of Our Seraphic Father St. Francis in the Province of the Apostle St. Thomas in the East Indies, hereby certify as follows: When I was rector of the church and parish of Our Lady of the Light at San Thome, and Commissary throughout the Choromandal coast set over the friars and Province of the said order, there came to Madras, a fortress of the English, a Capuchin monk, French by nation, named Father Ephraim of Nevers. He was in search of a passage to Pegu upon some English vessel; and his object was to assist there as a missionary sanctioned by His Holiness to aid in the work of one of our fathers then working in that Mission (Pegu).