:00:54
Your Holiness, the little matter
that brought me here is now settled.
:01:00
The Indians are once more free to be enslaved
by the Spanish and Portuguese settlers.
:01:08
I don't think that's hitting
the right note. Begin again.
:01:13
Your Holiness, I write to you
in this year of our Lord 1758...
:01:17
...from the southern continent of the
Americas, from the town of Asunción...
:01:23
...two weeks' march from
the great mission of San Miguel.
:01:27
These missions have protected the Indians
from the depredations of the settlers...
:01:33
... and have earned much resentment
because of it.
:01:36
The noble souls of these Indians
incline towards music.
:01:40
Indeed, many a violin played
in the academies of Rome...
:01:43
... have been made
by their nimble and gifted hands.
:01:49
It was from these missions the Jesuit
fathers carried the word of God...
:01:55
... to those Indians still
existing in their natural state...
:01:59
... and received in return... martyrdom.