_ 443 _ He also converted four well-born girls from Greece who had been hidden away by the Moors. He left two of them in Ormuz because they were of marriageable age and he sent the other two, who were children, to this city where they are being brought up and instructed in matters of the faith in houses of noble persons. 35. So as to be brief, I will mention only three of the many things achieved in the service of our Lord God in that country. It came to the father’s notice that the principal men among the Jews gathered in Ormuz from Constantinople, Venice, Greece, Alexandria and Armenia were secretly following their Jewish rites in a synagogue there. The Father suddenly rushed into the room where they were gathered for a solemn rite, and found a highly ornate propitiatory, with the five books of Moses written on paper rolls in five cases lined with brocade, and a kind of very elaborate candlestick of fine design standing before it. The Father dashed the Ark to the ground and went into another room, which was closed, and found forty-eight new Hebrew bibles, gilded and of curious workmanship, which one of them had brought from Venice to sell there; and he took them all. Because the Jew who had brought them was a poor man, the captain of Ormuz begged the
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