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202                    History of the Kingdom

also took very little account of theirs, provided that they acquired for the sovereign Redeemer the souls which were otherwise lost.
      Between others this holy zealot being filled with the holy Spirit after having planted the Churches of this Kingdom, & watered with his holy doctrine for the space of eight years, he wanted to pass to the surrounding Kingdoms, Gentiles & Pagans, to conquer them & unite them to the Empire of Jesus Christ. Although the King, the Senate, & all the peoples urgently begged him with tears in their eyes not to want to abandon them: but it was never possible, being pushed by the Spirit to his last glory.
      He therefore left the Court accompanied by many people of quality, until he went outside the Kingdom, where after having taken leave of them with a thousand tears & embraces, he passed on, accompanied by ten of his disciples, among several & diverse countries in which, having not made much fruit, he finally arrived at the Kingdom of Patadarna distant some hundred leagues from Antangil, where he immediately began to preach against the idolatry & wickedness of this people, the most depraved in all the East.
      Which being reported to the King, wicked &

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