Storia do Mogor 360.6

360.6

Up to the present time, gentlemen, it seems to me that we have never been disrespectful to the Lord Bishop of San Thomé, nor have we done the slightest possible act for which we could be reproved, much less anything for which we could be declared accursed and doubly accursed of God, et cetera. Now consider, for the rest, I beseech you, the way in which we bore ourselves when we learnt from the mouth of his Lordship that all the things done by the Lord Patriarch had been disallowed at the court of Rome; and finding that the decision given by his Excellency (the Patriarch) against us could no longer be any obstacle to the execution of the decrees, as the reverend Jesuit fathers had always pretended it was, Father Michel Ange paid a visit to the Lord Bishop, and prayed him to put into execution the decrees of the Sacred Congregation. He then found out that the bishop was in search of other reasons for dispensing with so doing. Therefore the next morning the father put in the annexed petition: