Storia do Mogor 338.17.4

338.17.4

This is how Dom Guilhermo repaid the Madras fathers for having taken him into their convent for three and a half years. They had treated him with every courtesy and respect, and allowed him to want for nothing. The whole population was by this time disabused through seeing so many changes. They recognised the ill-will of the other priests against these virtuous and innocent [Capuchin] fathers; they remembered what had been done to Father Friar Ephraim of Nevers, as already seen in his narrative (IV. 125-147). At this time there started from Madras for Pondicherry a Capuchin missionary who had arrived not long before from Surat [195]. His name was Friar Euzebio of Bourges, and he wished to travel to France by the first opportunity arising. On his arrival the Jesuits made inquiries, and learnt this fact. Father Dolu and the others, to prevent his journey, spread a story throughout the town, going from house to house and notifying to all men the arrival of such-and-such a person, who had been excommunicated. Whoever spoke to him would inevitably incur the same penalty. Father Euzebio went out to pay some visits, but noticed that all people fled from him, shutting their doors and avoiding any speech with him. The humiliated priest was forced to withdraw, and return to [Madras] whence he had come.