_ 220 _ indulgence bestowed upon our men in the East, due to lack of space in this letter: particularly since, from what is written above, it will be sufficiently clear how much omnipotent God is now rising up to Judge our cause, mindful of the wickedness and pride of his enemies, pride so great that advancing now so near to the battle, the enemy seems not to want to acknowledge Christ our Lord and the liberation of the Church and of His people, now so marvellously beginning even on His farthest boundaries. The enemy seems not to want to follow Him, faithless to his non-Christian people, and mindful neither of God nor of himself. From Alcochete, 12 June 1508.
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