The Royal Court of Morocco

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The Court of the Sultanate of Morocco

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Bartolomé Antonio Fernández Sobrado, Bishop of Ceuta

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To His Majesty Mulay Slimane, King of Morocco.

In recognition of ties between Christianity and the Nation of Morocco both ancient and historical (from the saints of old and Leo Africanus to Prince Philip of Africa), and in recognition of your own good deeds (such as your friendship with the Christians of the United States of America, or your suppression of African piracy), I write to you on behalf of His Holiness Pope Pius VII. The Christian minority in Morocco, good servants of the King no doubt, must be protected, to ensure domestic peace. No one wishes that Morocco risk facing the same situation as visited upon the Egyptians in recent times, with war and strife. Therefore, we propose the following agreement.

• Papal-Moorish Concordat
  
  
• That the Christians and Jews of Morocco will be recognized as Protected Persons, allowed to keep their faith, albeit practice it out of public view behind closed doors as is done in the lands of the Nordic Lutherans and forbidden to convert Mohammedans, in return for the payment of certain taxes levied upon them.
• All Christians and Jews, Moorish or European alike, held in slavery in the Kingdom of Morocco shall be freed, in return for a symbolic payment of 25 credits from the Holy See's coffers. Henceforth, the enslavement of Protected Persons shall be forbidden. The Papacy will in return strive to ensure the liberty of any Mohammedans of Moroccan origin held in Christian captivity.
• Roman Catholic Christians who, with the agreement of the King of Morocco and under guard, request permission to make pilgrimages to Morocco to celebrate the lives of Saint Marcellus the Centurion, Saint Cassian of Tangier, the Franciscan Protomartyrs, Blessed Balthazar Loyola of Mandes and Blessed Juan de Prado, shall be allowed to carry out such journeys.
• Christian subjects of the King of Sultan who obey these rules shall be granted permission to, under strict supervision, carry out pilgrimages to the Spanish territories of Ceuta and Melilla, visiting for example Ceuta Cathedral,
  Church of San Francisco, Ceuta, the Shrine of Our Lady of Africa.
• The Papacy shall wholeheartedly request that the King of Spain allows Mohammedan pilgrims passage to and worship at the Sidi Bel Abbas sanctuary and other Islamic holy sites within the Spanish territory of Ceuta, protected from harm. The Papacy shall also lobby with the Spanish that such sites not be destroyed, lest the Christians of Morocco face persecution.
• With the reunification of Italy blessedly proceeding, envoys of the Papacy shall undertake a quest to locate the lost physical remains of Prince Philip of Africa, son of Sultan Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi, King of Morocco 1574–1576 AD, somewhere in the Lombard town of Vigevano and return them to Moorish lands for a proper royal funeral.