_ 71 _ wanted to house us in the fortress. From there we went to rest with the Vicar, who made much of us and was very surprised when we told him that we were to live in the hospital, where he took us with much love. It seems that the bishop of Goa had ordered the Fathers to pay me the honour they would show to him. So many offers and presents were made that I was embarrassed and moreover they determined to accompany me all the time, as in fact they did. I begged them for the love of Christ not to do so, because our Order was not founded to be served but to serve all the world, the more so because I was a poor sinner who did not deserve it, nor even to serve them, asking them to let me go alone. They gave me so many silk garments that I did not know what to say, especially as there was no shortage of people who knew the ways of our rule and who told them how different was our way of life, taking nothing from anyone except to give to the poor, not for masses or preaching or confession, which put them in a great confusion and fervour to begin a new life. The crowd of people who came to see us was so great that the hospital in which we were staying was always full, some came with advice, others with complaints, others to
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