Storia do Mogor 361.3.1

361.3.1

To these words Monsignor made answer : ' He has been the cause of it, not I.' ' But what has he done,' said our Reverend Father Guardian, ' since neither he nor we know yet the reason ?' ' He has published the decrees of the Sacred Congregation without my permission ' (this is not true, gentlemen, as you must have ascertained from many passages), ' and has, besides, cited the Reverend Father Tachard to the courts at Rome.' ' Then, my lord,' replied the Reverend Father Guardian, ' your Lordship has declared Father Esprit to be excommunicated because he has published the decrees themselves with your permission, and because he has cited the reverend Jesuit Fathers, who are acting in direct opposition to the decrees ?' ' I gave no sort of permission,' then replied Monsignor. Thereupon, falling upon my knees and craving leave to speak, I asked him in the hearing of two Jesuits, the old cure, the secretary, and of a reverend Cordelier father (that is to say, a Franciscan) : ' Your Lordship has not, then, given permission to the Reverend Father Esprit, or, to speak more strictly, to Father Michel Ange, on the eve of St. Michael, for the publication of the decrees ?' ' No, I have not given it to him,' replied his Lordship without hesitation [263].