_ 484 _ I believe, he apostatized during the lifetime of his brother, who was King(A). When Father Manoel Fernandes was coming to India with a message, the King ordered him to be seized, so he took refuge in a convent of his friars, where it is said he remains secluded(B). It is said the Mamluks(C) are very pleased with that land, because the abundance of wood that is there, is very useful to them. (A) Minas (Adamas Sagad), brother of Claudius, Emperor of Ethiopia 1559–February 1563, about whom Valignano notes: “a man cruel by nature and arch enemy of the Apostolic See, who, as a heretic and schismatic…. Motivated by diabolical anger and fury, treated the Father Bishop and the other Fathers very badly” (Hist 330). (B) In Debaroa (as Patriarch Nunes wrote: see Beccari Vol. X 137). (C) That is, Turks.
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