_ 59 _ ly I myself, for my imperfections are well known to the brothers of this holy Congregation. If I had not been constrained by obedience, I should have been ashamed to write what I wrote last year; and more so this year, when I have been ordered to relate in particular the details of the things that Our Lord brings about through our Society. I compelled to do so not only by obedience, but also because I cannot fail to rejoice in what I have to write as I think that it will cause great devotion. I do not dare to write things in as much detail as I have been ordered, because it is not in my power to do so; because the judgements of God are like a great abyss, lest a great deep be hidden from me, deep calls to deep in the roar of his cataracts; I will do this in general according to my powers. When I was in Cochin last year with Father Master Francis, I wrote at length to Father Luis da Grão about the devotion of my dear pastor, Father António Gómez. He sent me to Chale to set up a college for some novices who had been sent to Goa to improve their spirit and bring forth fruit among the heathens of Calicut and Tanur and all the coast of Malabar. I raised some 70 pardões in alms to begin with, and houses for us to live in free, and a garden walled with stone and lime, very suitable for everything.
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