"The people of this country who become Christians do so purely for temporal advantage, as is inevitable in a land where slavery reigns. Slaves of the Moors or Hindus seek baptism in order to secure their manumission at the hands of the Portuguese. Others do so to get protection from tyrants, or for the sake of a turban, a shirt, or some other trifle they covet, or to escape being hanged, or to be able to associate with Christian women. The man who embraces the faith from honest conviction is regarded as a fool. They are baptized whenever or wherever they express a wish for the Sacrament, without any instruction, and many revert to their former paganism...."
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Letter written in Spanish on October 10, 1547 from Goa by a Jesuit priest Fr. Nicolau Lancilotto to Fr. Ignatio Loyola in 13 J. Wicki, Documenta Indica, Vol. 1, Rome 1948, pp. 188-4. (Vincent Cronin, 4 Peart to India, London 1959, p. 29) quoted in :Priolkar Anant Kakba and Gabriel Dellon. 2008. The Goa Inquisition : Being a Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India.
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