_ 394 _ Thus, even in death, everyone regarded him with the respect and reverence which they had accorded him in life. His body was brought ashore, where the Captain of the city, Dom Guterre Monroy awaited him, together with all the gentlemen of rank and the people of the city. The body was placed under a canopy, which hid it from sight. So great was the weeping of all present that the Friars of St. Francis and the priests could not immediately commend his soul to God. The Kannarese heathen of that land have the custom of showing great kindness at the time of a death, weeping and commiserating. When they saw his countenance, which manifested the honesty and gravity of the man, his beard whitened by age and suffering, they did and said such things that there was no one present who was not overtaken by grief. All were especially moved by chose women he had enabled to marry. With much weeping and tender feeling, he was buried in a chapel which he had built at the gate of the city. This chapel is known as Our Lady of the Mountain because he had endowed it, and for reasons we have already related, Mass is said there every day and now it is said for his soul, employing funds which he set aside for this purpose.
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