_ 142 _ pardaus to separate him from it. That is why he sought him out [223r]. There was a man who had not confessed for 20 years, who dreaded confessing to the Father because he had a book of witchcraft by means of which he spoke on many occasions to 65 demons in Latin, Greek and Portuguese. However, the Lord allowed him to confess, and he handed the book over to the Father for him to burn it. I burnt it with my own hand, a device full of aberrations. In Muscat, another old man who had not confessed for 80 years, that is, practically the whole of his life, made his confession. A noble arrived with the fleet, when the Father came from Ormuz, also felt great revulsion and opposition to confessing with him. He told one of our Brothers who knew him that one night in Bassein, being in bed without being able to sleep, he felt his hands grab his throat with such force that they almost suffocated him. While he fervently invoked the name of Our Lady, he admitted that he well knew the reason why God was punishing him. On falling asleep, he claims that he saw the Father next to him, and when he asked him the reason of his torment, he made the sign of the cross on his throat. He was freed from the pain he felt and he awoke shedding copious tears.
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