_ 179 _ before our eyes. That is what is happening with regard to this matter. Orate pro nobis [pray for us]. It seems to me that when we leave here, at the right moment, we will be closer companions of the cross. As I was walking from the college in this state of elation, the Moors were greatly affected and while I was preaching in the church, the King of Ormuz summoned me. He disclosed to me his pious wish to become a Christian, but he did not do so for fear that the grandees of the Kingdom might be offended. The upshot was that we arranged a debate in his presence and I told him to have the disputes summoned surreptitiously, because I expected that Our Lord God would so arrange matters that the Moors would not take amiss the King’s choosing His holy faith. At this, about two thousand Moors were prompted to receive Baptism on the day that the King was to be baptized. Many of them, prominent people, had already chosen names and godfathers for the baptismal front. But the enemy who never sleeps spread a rumour that the King was already a Christian. Consequently, what the King had proposed did not happen. As they were unable to change the King’s resolve with gifts and blandishment, they instructed certain learned
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