_ 73 _ found here. Now, the Lord be praised, because of the fear I have put into them by preaching on these matters, many Christians have mended their ways, most of whom were sinning through ignorance because no preacher who came here had ever preached more than twice. The Christians mixed so much with the Moors, Turks, Jews and heathen that they did not know themselves, and what was most lamentable, how many of the children of Christians became Moors! They were so immoral here that Portuguese sinned with Moorish women and I had to ask the magistrate to look into this and order that those whom I accused as heretics should be burned. This admonition aroused such fear among the people that many gave up this sin, which before they had not taken to be a sin, and also simple fornication. The Moors too did not dare to make it public as before, nor the heathen, and many confessed with much weeping, doing public penance, scourging themselves at the church door on Sundays and holy days, which made the lesser people fearful and scourge themselves in private. Among others I had a penitent who wanted to appear naked before everybody in church on Sunday and to beg for mercy aloud while scourging himself; and when he
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