_ 347 _ and the same was sent to you from Ormuz last year in 1554(A). So this is simply to fulfill the obligation which has been placed upon us to write to you in order to make known to your reverence(B) that we continue to preach to these people two or three times a week at which times by the grace of the Lord no small number of souls result as produce. And in the same way the confessions continue, and almost all the people take the Holy Sacrament on all the feasts throughout the year. Up to the present time four of the wives of the King of Ormuz who lives in this city have become Christian. He is on the point of doing so. It was a most noteworthy thing causing great admiration that God should allow him to be abandoned so that he might more quickly become Christian.(C) Other notable things occur each day and each month, since the things of this life do not remain in the same state due to the change in time which alters them.(D) I dare not write of these, but I commend them to God that he may (A) See above a letter of 20 October 1550, doc 26. (B) Cf doc 5, 1. (C) He speaks of the King Turan Shah II, a Mahommedan, whom Barzaeus already hoped would adhere to the Christian faith, in vain according to Heredia (cf Documenta Indica I 602 650, II 654). (D) See the proverb: As times change so we change with them.
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