Storia do Mogor 338.14.4

338.14.4

After enumerating all the dignitaries of the Church, the 'Clementina' concludes that in no way shall they be received or obeyed without having previously shown the letters and powers they have brought : ibique nulli eos absque dictarum literarum ostensione recipiant, aut eis pareant vel intendant. [And that without the production of the said letters none may receive them or obey or give ear to them.] By these terms I do not consider that your reverence need have had any scruples, but rather owed the promptest obedience to these detailed precepts, on the condition that the Lord Dom Carlos Thomas declined to promulgate his Bulls. As for myself, I shall ever promulgate only the consuming eagerness I have for the peace of this Church in the East, encircled by the heathen and oppressed by their might, shedding my blood even to the last drop in its defence and in submission to the Church Catholic and Roman. In this vow I have to include your reverence by praying you that as my reward you breathe in my behalf some sighs to God, to whose keeping I commend your reverence. Goa, on the 1st September of 1704, Your servant, The Archbishop Primate.