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donna Maria Leitoa

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A auto que mandou fazer o excelentisimo Sehnor Francisco de Tavora do Concelho do Estado de Sua Magestade do corpo defunto da Madre Maria de Jesus, do Convento de Santa Monica da cidade de Goa

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e tornandose a recolher ao convento o corpo desta religiosa, entrarão com ela a mesma
clausura o senhor vice-rei com o cabido, os inquisidores, e algúns prelados das religiois
e fidalgos, e pondosse outra vez o corpo no mesmo coro baixo, se separou de novo que sinal
do lado ja não estava farpado com duas pontas, mas todo igual de grossura do dedo maior
da mão, a modo de meia iva com iva cor encarnada escura que tirava para rojo, e che-
gandose o esquife para junto da cova para se meter o corpo dentro em um caixão que
estava preparado vi eu secretario do estado, com algúns religiosos de Santo Augusto
que estavão presentes coberto de agua o sinal do lado, que a vista de todos a limpei
com o meu lenço, e algúns dos religiosos aplicavão os seus ao mesmo lado, e aos na-
rices e boca por onde lhe salia sangue liquido sendo morta de tres dias com que fica-
rão todos admirados, e deixando o corpo ainda por meter no caixão entregue as
religiosas se sabirão todos por fora, e neste tempo entrou com licença do cabido Dom
Manoel Mascarenhas d concelho de Santo Augusto a ver o dito corpo, e posto que o vigário ge-
ral e provisor ficou encarregado por ordem do cabido para fazer o auto referido
por lhe pertencer como ao ordinario, com tudo ordenou o senhor vice-rei a mi secretario
do estado fizesse tão bem este auto para ele assinar com todas as pessoas nomeadas
que se acharão presentes, para com ele dar conta deste caso ao príncipe nosso senhor
e tomando eu secretario do estado ao tempo destes exames, e depois deles varias in-
formações assim da prioresa, e mais religiosas do dito convento com de outras pessoas
de fora graves e antigas do nascimento desta religiosa, e de quem forão seus pais, e que
anos tinha de idade, e da religião e que exercícios fizera no discurso de sua vida
me foi respondido que ela fora bautizada na Igreja de Santo Aleixo [huas dar]
desta cidade, e não sabião o dia, mes, e ano, mas que a dita religiosa confessara nos
últimos dias que tinha setenta e oito anos de idade, e que seus pais se chamarão
Fernando de Cron, fidalgo alemão, e Donna Maria Leitoa, natural desta cidade
e ela no século se nomeava por Donna Maria de Cron, e fora casada de idade de
trece ou catorze anos com Dom Manoel de Souza, fidalgo rico nascido na India
e vivera casada quatro anos pouco mais ou menos sem ter filhos, e o dito seu mari-
do se fora despachar a Portugal e voltando para esta cidade falecera na viagem poucos
dias antes de chegar a Nao a barra de que tendo ela noticia se recolhera em sua cama-
ra, e tomara resolução de largar o mundo e ser religiosa no dito convento de Santa
Mônica e que no tempo de casada se levantava alta noite da cama deixando nela
seu marido, e se punha no seu oratorio em oração tratando mal o seu corpo com peni-
tencias, e depois de viúva continuara com mais liberdade neste exercício, e sendo a-
pertada de seus parentes se tornasse a casar pois ficara moza bem parecida e herdada
nunca puderão acabar vio com ela, e para os desenganar hortara logo os cabelos, e por
seu pai se achar na Europa na dita ocasião por causa de um desgosto que hivera na India,
e dera conta da resolução que tinha tomada a que o dito seu pai respondera que
se quisesse casar lhe mandaria um fidalgo de muita calidade porem que estando
resoluta a seguir a sua vocação o pusesse logo infuto e que com esta reposta traera
de se recolher no dito mosteiro tendo de idade vinte e dois ou vinte três anos
e despusera seus bens que erão muitos deixandoos a hua sua irmã chamada Donna Isa-
bel de Cron que fora casada duas vezes, a primeira com Dom Pedro de Almeida, a se-
gunda com Diogo de Mello de Castro, e não tivera outros irmãos, e deixara por a sua persona
hva groça tença que depois fora gastando em esmolas com que somente ficara
com outro senhor por mes também dependia nelas, era muito liberal, e nas
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And when the body of this nun was taken back to the convent, the viceroy with the councillor, inquisitors, some prelates, and fidalgos entered to the same cloister with her, and when the body was once again placed in the lower choir, it was noticed again that the sign on the side was no longer barbed with two points but all the same thickness as the middle finger, being in the center a dark red in color that was turning red, and when the bier was approaching towards the grave to put the corpse inside the coffin which was prepared, I, the secretary of the State, with some priests of the Saint Augustine who were present, saw the sign on the side was covered with water, which I wiped with my handkerchief under everyone’s view, and some priests applied theirs on the said side, and on the nose and the mouth through which the fluid blood was coming out, having been dead for three days at which everyone got amazed, and when leaving the corpse still in the coffin to be delivered to all the nuns out there to know, in this moment Dom Manoel Mascarenhas of the council of St. Augustine entered with the permit of the councillor to see the said body, and given that the vicar general and provisor was in charge of making the mentioned report by order of the councillor, for he belonged to the Order, the viceroy ordered that I, the secretary of the State, also draw up this report so that he could sign with all the people mentioned and who were present, to inform our lord the prince of this case, and while I, the secretary of the State, was at these examinations, and after these tests giving various information from the prioress and other nuns of the said convent, as well as from the other serious and old people outside about the birth of the nun, and who her parentes were, how old she was, and for how many years she was religious, and what exercises she practiced in the course of her life, I was told that she had been baptized at the Church of Santo Aleixo [??] of this city, and they did not know day, month, and year but that the said nun confessed in her last days that she was seventy eight years old, and that her parents were Fernando de Cron, german fidalgo, and Maria Leitoa, native of this city, and in the world she was called Donna Maria de Cron, and at the age of thirteen or fourteen she was married to Dom Manoel de Souza, a rich fidalgo born in India, and lived more or less four years without children, and that the said husband was dispatched to Portugal and on his trip returning to this city he died on the Voyage a few days before the ship arrived, and getting the news she went off to her room and made a decision to leave the world and become a nun in the said convent of Santa Mônica. And that during the time when she was married she woke up in the late night leaving her husband in the bed and prayed in her chapel harming her body with penance, and after she was widowed she continued this exercise with more freedom, and when being pressured by her relatives if she remarried because she looked pretty and was inherited, they were never able to stop her, and in order to deceive them she later covered her hair, and because her father was in Europe at this time for a grief that occurred in India, she had given an account of the decision that she made, to which her father replied that if she wanted to get married he would send her a very high fidalgo, but that since she was determined to follow her vocation, he felt immediately in vain, and that with this response she retreated to the said convent at the age of twenty two or twenty three, and laying down all her goods which were a lot to her sister Donna Isabel de Cron who was married twice, first with Dom Pedro de Almeida, and second with Diogo de Mello de Castro, and as she did not have other siblings, she left a large sum of money that was later spent on alms that was put on those who depended only on it monthly, which was very generous, and

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