This letter, which has survived in the Vatican archives, distorted the truth: the rebels claimed that the Nestorian patriarch'Shemon Bar Mama' had died in 1551 and that Sulaqa had been legitimately elected after his death.
This letter distorted the truth. This letter has survived in the Vatican archives. That the Nestorian patriarch'Shemon Bar Mama' had died in 1551 and that Sulaqa had been legitimately elected after his death. This was what the rebels claimed.