_ 75 _ The Fathers and Brothers from the kingdom have arrived (in India), and the Fathers are very happy, but they are looking forward to this Provincial year(A). Your Reverence will know of the need in these parts for Fathers who are both well-educated and virtuous. What shall I do, who am neither learned nor good? Your Reverence, please pray to God for me that He may grant me what is needful: knowledge so as to be able to resolve difficult cases(B); goodness in order to deal with people so ill-disposed and so immodest in their dress(C). 8. Nothing more, Reverend Father, except that I, as the most useless of all, beg Your Reverence’s blessing, with which we all hope to be comforted. Remember me to Father Miona(D). From Ormuz, the 15th of April 1564. From Your Reverence’s most humble servant in Jesus Christ , Vincente Tonda. (A) For the three - year term of Father Quadroos had already expired in 1562 (cf. also Documenta Indica Vol V 245 746). (B) cf. doc 34, 5. (C) Read what Father Manual Cabral sent to Father Ludovico Goncalves on the same subject, 10 Apr 1564 (doc 33, 7). (D) Father Manuel Miona, Portuguese confessor to Saint Ignatius, died atRome on 4 March 1567 (MI Fontes narr. I 58549 44642, Documenta Indica Vol III 14).
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