To Miguel de Torres: Rome, October 9,1546 (Letter 143: 1:433-37; in Spanish)

Abstract

Reports about the documents for the reformation of monasteries in Barcelona; overtures by the negus of Ethiopia ("Prester John") to John III and the likelihood that the Society will have to supply a patriarch for the mission; Lainez's preaching at Trent; the cessation of the campaign of slander against Ignatius and his companions waged by the papal postmaster Mattia, who was irate because Ignatius had persuaded the man's mistress to Ieave him; changes in plans for the council,' and the Emperor's war against the Lutherans.