Storia do Mogor 357.4

357.4

Since we knew that all things done by the reverend Jesuit fathers since the announcement to them of the decrees of the Sacred Congregation are null and void — for they are ipso facto under suspension, and deprived of all the privileges conferred upon missionaries, as stands recorded in the decrees themselves— we came to the resolve of publishing the decrees in our church at Pondicherry. With the object of not being afterwards blamed in any way, we presented a petition to the Lord Bishop of San Thome on the eve of St. Michael, September 28, 1706, wherein we prayed His Most Illustrious Lordship to put into execution the orders of his Holiness and of the Sacred Congregation ; or, if he objected to do so, would he attach at the foot of the petition a formal refusal, for the sole purpose of proving to his Holiness and to the Sacred Congregation that we had taken or urged all the possible steps for causing their orders to be executed.