Letter from Julien Guérin to the PF secretary [Luigi Capponi], 1647-07-15, Tunis

Letter from Julien Guérin to the PF secretary [Luigi Capponi], 1647-07-15, Tunis

Tunis

Algiers

Slaves (Christian)

Renegades

Plague

Franciscans

Letter from Julien Guérin to Cardinal Capponi, accompanying a few letters he is forwarding to PF and which he received from a Maur. Guérin apologizes that the letters are open, but he found them in this state. Guérin also mentions that: a) the plague lost some of its virulence; b) some apostates came back to the Church; c) Christian matters are going well; some Christian priests won their freedom and left, but others arrived in their stead; d) the current priests live well and help the Christians by giving them good examples; e) there are three slaves of the Minor Observant Franciscan Order who are tied to their owner for 2,000 piastre, and Guérin is asking Capponi to write to their General, because they are in danger; f) he himself is doing everything he can to help the local Christians; and g) regarding the dispensation he had previously requested for the two apostates who wanted their union recognized, there is no more need for that, since they both have died.

Additional comments

Julien Guérin

APF SOCG 64, 259r, 270v

1647-07-15

Addressed to [Luigi Capponi]

See for the PF decisions on these subjects: APF ACTA 17, 315v, 320v-321r, issue 10 (database item 122), and APF ACTA 17, 574r, 577v (database item 123).
For the letter of the French consul in Tunis attesting that the letters in the package had all been opened: APF SOCG 64, 253r, 276v (database item 129).
For another letter by Guérin with a similar content: APF SOCG 65, 206r-v, 209v (database item 137). For item g) see APF SOCG 64, 258r-v, 271v (database item 130).

Original; signed; Italian

Italian

Letter

131

Origin: Tunis

Destination: [Rome]