_ 444 _ Father to give them back for the love of God, provided the Jew did not ever bring any more and would take them back to Venice where he had found them, which he did. The Jews were so astonished and frightened by the Father breaking into their synagogue that until he left for India, they did not dare set foot in it or perform any of their ceremonies. 36. A man had injured another in India in a crime so serious that he deserved natural death, and the injured man was unwilling to forgive him but accused him, and he was sentenced by the judges of the High Court to be hanged in person, and wherever he might be the sentence should be read to him, and he should die. The offended man knew that the offender was in Ormuz, five hundred leagues away, and he embarked with all the documents and sentences in his pocket, solely to have him hanged there. As soon as the other man knew that he had arrived from India and why he had come, he begged the Father to speak to him and ask him to show him mercy, for otherwise he would have to die or live forever in Moorish country and not as a Christian. Our Lord by His grace granted that after the Father had talked to the man several times, he not only forgave him and tore up and burned the papers he had brought with him to seek his death, but also became close friends with him.
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