Note 687 — Chapter IV
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Ignatius was fond of recalling these accusations and acquittals. In a celebrated letter to the King of Portugal he said that he had been eight times accused of heresy and as often acquitted, and that these accusations had really arisen, not from any associations he had ever had with schismatics, Lutherans, or Alumbrados (heretical Mystics), but from the astonishment caused by the fact that he, an unlearned man, should presume to speak about things divine (Cartas de San Ignacio, etc., No. 52).