Storia do Mogor 366.5.1

366.5.1

Finally, the Lord Bishop, although he knows that Jesus Christ has said that scandals must come, but woe to that man through whom the scandal cometh — ' Necesse est ut veniant scandala ; verumtamen vae homini illi per quem scandalum venit ' — in spite of this, instead of suppressing the scandal that the reverend Jesuit fathers have caused in these regions — by seizing from us such a flourishing mission without why or wherefore ; by non-obedience to the orders of the Sacred Congregation, which commands that we be replaced in possession of our cure under penalty of privation of offices, privileges, and faculties conceded to missionaries ; after we had published those decrees of the said Sacred Congregation with his own (the Bishop's) permission, although such consent was not an absolute necessity; after finding that all [313] the poor Malabar Christians shouted for joy at seeing themselves once more under their first pastor, and that our church was crowded with people, while, on the contrary, that of the reverend Jesuit fathers was deserted — his Lordship created anew a still greater scandal than before by sending forth a Pastoral to the reverend Jesuit fathers, and excommunicating a poor friar who had never done any act in opposition to the said Pastoral. 'Quis audivit unquam tale? et quis vidit huic simile?' (Vulgate, Isa. lxvi. 8). Gentlemen, who has ever heard such a thing? who has ever seen procedure like this? Of a truth, I remain in wonderment;