Storia do Mogor 340.3.2

340.3.2

Having regard to this evil repute, there being no other way out of it, the woman arranged a marriage between her daughter and the said friend of hers, by this method neutralizing the current report. On receiving word of this, the other relations of the betrothed placed a protest in the hands of the said vicar. He declined to accept it, and performed the marriage ceremony during Holy Week, taking the girl to the church for the purpose at night time, although barely convalescent from small-pox. When they found this out the relations of the girl, as the only course they could pursue, had recourse to the father of the Society at the mission for advice touching this marriage — what might be the consequences, and what pleas they could submit to the Lord Bishop. But the Jesuit was not pleased to point out anything of the kind they desired ; and thus the young girl remained the wife of the vicar's broker.