_ 182 _ superstitions practices every year while slashing themselves with knives, for the love of Mohammed. Praise be to the Lord who humbled such arrogant souls. This mosque was converted into a most devour hermitage for meditating on our Lady of sorrows and I have placed in it a man of virtue, who is doing penance. In order to demonstrate that their religion was superior, the Moors organized impressive sermons in the city and also on many occasions shouted at the tops of their voices in the Alcoran(A). With the people clamouring for me to find a remedy for this, and recalling illius verbi Christi, compelle eos intrare(B) [these words of Christ, “Compel them to enter”], I forthwith sent word to the King that, since he had not fulfilled his holy pledge, he should order the shouting from the Alcoran to stop until such time as we sent a message to Our Lord the King, and then what he ordered would be done. I was merely, trying to encourage those who were converted every day and to erase the memory of the law (A) Here “Alcoran” should be understood as a “Minaret”, to be found in all the cities where Islam is practiced publicly. (B) C.f. Luke 14. 23.
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