_ 107 _ in revolt(A). These lived among the Moors and had not confessed for ten or twelve [13v] years(B), I preached two sermons here in a shelter(C) to the coastal commander and a lot of other people. When the sermon was over, I was required to hear many confessions of people who were almost. in despair, because the majority of them were fugitives. There were so many confessions at the request of the commander and the people that I had to delay an extra day with the nau in which I had arrived. The powers of the Bishop(D) and of the Supreme Pontiff(E), which I had, came in useful, because this country is just like a refuge, where wives flee their husbands and vice versa. Accordingly, there were many apartments for both married and single women, as well as for many (A) That is, fugitives. (B) Perhaps no vicar or priest lived here. (C) Ramada i.e. a shelter made of palm leaves or cloth (cf. Dalgado II 246, EX I 200). No church properly so-called was seen here. (D) On 28th October 1546, João de Albuquerque through a short Meditatio cordis [Meditation on the Heart] obtained legal powers of absolution whether for those cases reserved under the Papal bull Cena Domini [The Supper of the Lord or for other penitents (cf. Schurhammer Q 2471). (E) Cf. also doc. 46, 1.
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