_ 383 _ freedom to sin, so that they would more quickly recognize the errors in which they lived. The Vicar General of this province from São Domingo(A), wrote to me about this matter in this vein, as the letter that accompanies this one will explain, together with another that I am also sending there which I wrote in reply to it, so that you may be aware that there is a stretch of bad road everywhere.(B) Here in Goal I found Fr. Misser Paulo, as the Rector on the retirement of Fr. Antonio Gomes, who held the said post, and the Brothers reunited with great fervour and very eager for the perfecting of the Society. There must be thirty-six of them all told, both Fathers and Brothers, with those I brought with me from Ormuz. May Our Lord confirm them in His love. The Fathers and Brothers who came this year from the Kingdom cheered us no end with their arrival. Our Lord knows how much we need them here. (A) Didaco Bermudes, Vicar General of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans in India 1548-59 (Schurhammer, Ceylon 514). (B) No trace of these letters remains (cf. doc. 26 a-b). Read the warnings from Xavier to Fr. Barzeu in April 1522 in Goa about the method of dealing with the Dominican and Franciscan friars, who disagreed in their opinions with our members, in EX II 424-25 434.
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