Storia do Mogor 358.2.2

358.2.2

We know very well, gentlemen, though in no way thereby surprised, that the Lord Bishop of San Thome has written to your Council that the decrees of the Sacred Congregation spoke not a word about the parish priests of Pondicherry. But to obviate exaggeration, I will place before your eyes the precise words used by His Most Illustrious Lordship, that you may see, gentlemen, whether those words correspond to the original which you have in your possession. 'The reverend Father Fra Spirito (Esprit) came forth with an unlooked-for and scandalous resolution' (Does it seem to you, gentlemen, a great scandal that we should have published, with his permission, the said decrees of the Sacred Congregation and of his Holiness, issued in our favour, in order to obtain once more our old cure ?) [217] ' without more foundation than that of his many letters, when he ought to have awaited the decision of France, to which this affair had been remitted ' (Here is a fine piece of respect, gentlemen, to the Court of Rome, the preferring to it of an inferior tribunal ; and here is a fine method of gaining the good graces of a monarch whose title of Most Christian King was acquired in no other way than by continual submission to the Holy See!), 'and assumed the right to decide about those decrees of the Sacred Congregation ' (Here is a heavy burden that his Lordship casts on us;