_ 79 _ (24) Document no. and reference. Episodes of the year 1576 The annual letter came from Father Gomez Vaz, Bishop of the diocese, to Father Everardo Mercuriano, Superior General of the Society of Jesus in Rome, Goa, on the 20th of January 1576, it mentioned that the King of Ethiopia fought a fierce war with the Turks:(24) Extract: 84 and 85 84. The eighth and last residence is that of Ethiopia, where there is the Father Patriarch,(A) with three other Fathers and a Brother.(B) They are working there is much greater hardship than in all the other places because they only have dealings with the few Portuguese who go there. We received letters from them last year in which they gave (A) D. Andrés de Oviedo. (B) Fathers Emmanuel Fernandes, Francisco Lopes, Gundisalvo Cardoso.
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