Storia do Mogor 359.4.4

359.4.4

I wish to give you first a copy of the declaration, in order that everybody may know that the reverend Jesuit fathers do not confine themselves to warfare against idols, but the zeal with which they are filled is so great and so burning, that they would like not only to destroy the Capuchin fathers, but, if they could, render their memory odious to all men. Here is the copy of the declaration fulminated against the Reverend Father Esprit of Tours, apostolic missionary and Superior of the Capuchins at Pondicherry, simply for having published the decrees of the Sacred Congregation ; for having said that the reverend Jesuit fathers are not the legal pastors of the Malabãrís at Pondicherry ; for having reduced to writing the names of the Malabar gods in order to acquaint the Sacred Congregation with the number of Christians living there; finally, for having cited the reverend Jesuit fathers to the court of Rome, upon our discovering that they were acting contrary to the decrees given in favour of the Capuchin fathers.