Storia do Mogor 361.4.7

361.4.7

'In addition, it was before the publication of the said Pastoral that the Reverend Father Esprit wrote down the names of the Malabārī Christians; hence, when he did this, it was not to take away your Lordship's jurisdiction. He knew thoroughly well the obedience he owed you. It was done in order to inform the court at Rome of the number of Malabarī Christians in Pondicherry. For the reverend Jesuit fathers, be it in France, be it at Rome, say there are to be found twenty to thirty thousand Christians, where we give details that show there are not even two thousand. Your Lordship yourself, did you not say to the Reverend Father Guardian, here present, that a reverend Jesuit father had baptized six thousand Christians in one day?'