_ 135 _ He converted a female relative of Mohammed and of Shah Tahmasp(A) to Christianity, and later on she received five hundred cruzados from him for her marriage(B). He paid the soldiers and fed the poor. Through the letters that he wrote to this College from Ormuz we learned that, in the three years that he was there, he spent twenty thousand pardaus(C) on marriages and pious works. There were such enormous returns to the faith there(D), that both among the secular judges and the officers of the King, as well as among the clergy, nothing was done without his decision. There were so many confessions that the clergy used to say that after Master Gaspar went to Ormuz it never ceased to be Lent. He was very austere in his life and very kind in his conversation, which captivated all those who spoke with him. He preached almost the whole week. When D. Antonio(E), the Viceroy's nephew, left here with a fleet against al-Katif, at the time when the army was being made ready there, he heard the confession of (A) Concerning this conversion see Doc 26, 22. (B) Barzeu is talking about the wife of Maduni (Cf Doc 26,8). (C) Cf Documenta Indica Vol I p 690. (D) Cf Documenta Indica Vol I p 608 and 690. (E) D Antonio de Noronha (Cf Doc 56, 27).
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