[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 358.3.6 # Storia do Mogor 358.3.6 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 358.3.6 - **Language:** English ### [358.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.6) Whence proceeds it, then, that when the decrees were notified to the Reverend Father Tachard by the order of the Lord Bishop of San Thomé, his Reverence produced a sentence of my Lord Patriarch in order to hinder their execution? If his Lordship had purposed to write to you that the said decrees did not speak in any shape of the mission or cure of the Malabārīs of Pondicherry, to me it seems that he ought not first to have approved and then subsequently disapproved of them. If the reverend Jesuit fathers had meant not to obey the Sacred Congregation, to me it seems that neither ought they to have met us with the above sentence in order to hinder the execution of its decree as not meeting with their approval. Thus the Lord Bishop of San Thomé would have been to some extent in a reasonable position, and the reverend Jesuit fathers also, by the non-production of that sentence. In addition, they would have spared the Lord Patriarch a well-earned reproof, which might well fall upon him from Rome for having interfered in an affair which had been submitted to the adjudication of the Holy See. By this course we should have been spared the spectacle of the bad faith with which they have acted in producing a sentence passed two years before, of which we should still be ignorant had we not notified to them these decrees \[of the Sacred Congregation\]; so true is it that, whatever expedient may be resorted to, the Divine oracles are bound to be fulfilled. - [Previous: 358.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.5) - [Next: 358.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.7) - [Up: 358.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.6) · Pramāṇa