Storia do Mogor 338.7.2

338.7.2

Meanwhile, until this is disclosed, let us go back once more to the poor Capuchins of Madras, for it was not thought right to leave them in tranquillity in any way. For the better understanding of this the reader is informed that, at the time when the Lord Nuncio sent an order by which he declared the suspension a divinis of these unfortunate men, he sent to the Reverend Father Dom Guilhermo della Valle, a Theatine friar, a patent as parochial priest of Madras, drawn up in Pondicherry on June 14 in the current year [1704]. With it was an order that, instead of making the suspension [of the Capuchins] public, he should seek rather some device by which he should obtain quiet entry into the Capuchin convent, and exercise the office of parish priest with the approbation of their superior ; but he was to insist on the Reverend Father Friar Euzebio observing the state of suspension in which he had been placed, by not celebrating or exercising any sort of ecclesiastical function.