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PSCR0284

1607. Carta de Álvaro Belo, frade, para a Jorge de Melo e Salvador da Teixeira, inquisidores.

Author(s) Álvaro Belo      
Addressee(s) Jorge de Melo      
In English

Private letter from Álvaro Belo, friar, to Jorge de Melo and Salvador da Teixeira, inquisitors.

The author refers to his illness and mentions the poor conditions in the convent where he is being held.

The defendant in this process is Álvaro Belo, religious of the Order of St. Francis and guardian of the Convent in the village of Alvito (Alentejo). Natural from Setubal, the defendant is accused of heresy by the Evora Inquisition, for having said at the refectory table that "God formerly ruled better than now" and that he "wished he was God," and also for having written that "all religions were good and in all of them men could be saved if they had faith, among other things. The defendant was denounced by the Father Vicente da Cruz, who felt indignant to hear his words at meal time. The transcribed letters were submitted by the defendant to the Inquisition Table in his defense. Not wanting to present himself voluntarily, the defendant was held captive in the San Francisco Convent.

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Despois q me apartei de Vsms estive na Enfermaria dessa çidade mui mal sangrado E purgado, alem de dous acçidentes Em q me vi morto. E posto q ao Peres pareçeo temeridade estando tal querer partir me assi pa casa: todavia despois me deu lça E cõ mto resguardo me parti domingo vespora de Natal ainda q cõ hũ olho mais arrisquado. Qua tomei huãs pirolas, E fis outras diligençias: mas comtudo tenho çesões cada dia E estou mto perigoso pello sitio da casa q he tal, q mais de 50 religiosos se hã ido desta casa estes ãnos por do-enças, q todas ficã aqui incuravẽs, E ainda nas patrias cõ a saude vagarosa. E assi nhũ de qtos aqui adoeçerã nunqua qua mais tornarã, q lhes nã fosse forçado tor-narẽçe a ir de todo. E na Enfermaria desse convto estã agora desta casa sinquo frades pregadores, cõfessores E de serviço; E todos pa lá se ficarẽ, cõ os mais, p suas patrias. Pello q pesso a Vsms me dem lça pa me ir a setuval minha patria, onde Vsms nã terã a sua obia: E podendo, cõ seu recado serei onde me mandarẽ. Xo cõ todos E gde a Vsms etc. Deste convto de Na sra das Pedantes de Alvito a 22 de janro de 607

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