Storia do Mogor 333.4

333.4

Furthermore, two Capuchin fathers, who came from Persia as assistants to Father Ephraim — that is to say, Father Friar Ambrose of Preuilly and Father Friar Gilles of Dijon — have asked me for the present certificate as a justification of the said father, their brother, and to prove his innocence. I have drawn it up strictly according to truth as an eye-witness of almost all the things that I record and affirm, for I have been his confessor five years and a half, and have conversed with him with all imaginable familiarity. During most of this time we were together, either I in his hospice and church, or he in ours. If I tried to record here all that I know of the said father — of his virtues, of the services he rendered to Christianity in general and to his mission in particular, or did for the welfare and salvation of souls, I should never be finished. All that I have entered in the present certificate I confirm by an oath on my religious profession and on my holy orders as being absolutely true. Done at Goa in the convent of the Mother of God of the Capuchin Fathers this 23rd September, 1650. (Signed) F. Manuel de St. Joseph.