Storia do Mogor 351.4

351.4

At this time a book was printed in the Convent of the Universal Saviour, directed against the Dyophysites. Hereupon the opportunity was seized by the Papists to declare falsely to the Government that the Armenians had printed a book against the doctrine of the Koran, and in order to clear himself from this slander the Prelate Stephannos was compelled to expend a sum of 500 tomans. In consequence of this determined hostility, Stephannos, together with his clergy, went in procession, wearing chasubles and bearing blackened candles, to the Maidãn of Julpha, and solemnly excommunicated the house of the Shahrimaneans, because that, through the help which they had afforded to the Jesuits, such great trouble and mischief had resulted. When the Gentiles, on seeing this ceremony, asked what the Prelate and his clergy were doing, they replied : ' Just as you curse your Sunni heretics, so we curse our heretics.' The rest of this miserable story would neither be worth relating nor pleasant to read, et cetera.