Storia do Mogor 362.2.7

362.2.7

It is true that the reverend Jesuit fathers, who are so benevolently inclined towards us that they would rejoice to see us destroyed root and branch, caused an infant to be carried into our church. They wanted to see if the Reverend Father Esprit would confer on it Holy Baptism. But the said father perceived at once that it was a snare laid for him by his enemies, and all that they wanted was something they could lay hold of against us. He sent back the infant forthwith to the reverend Jesuit fathers, although they would have much preferred to see it baptized than to get it again unbaptized. 'What do you call that, Monsignor?' said Father Michel Ange to him. 'Oh! I have already told you I want none of your arguments.' 'I have one more, if it please you, for the love of God,' replied the Reverend Father Michel Ange. 'What is it, then?' asked the Lord Bishop. 'Here it is,' said Father Michel Ange: 'let us suppose that a person has brought a suit before a divisional court (présidial), and there loses his case. He then appeals to the Parlement, empowered to decide in the last instance. If that Parlement decides in his favour, can the divisional court, subordinate to that Parlement, revive the suit, and once more decide it against the appellant suitor, in spite of the Parlement being in no manner under its control?' 'No,' says Monsignor.