{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 25,
  "chapterName": "c.1324. Odoric of Pordenone on Christians in India",
  "pageFrom": 17,
  "pageTo": 17,
  "pages": [
    {
      "pageNumber": 17,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n17\nholy, James the glorious, gl Peter and Demetrius. Nevertheless\nblessed over all be God who disposeth all things according to\nhis will!\nAfter their blessed martyrdom, which occurred on the Thursday\nbefore Palm Sunday in Thana of India, I baptized about ninety\npersons in a certain city called Parocco, ten days' journey distant\ntherefrom, and I have since baptized more than twenty, besides\nthirty-five who were baptized between Thana and Supera. Praise\nbe to Christ the creator of all things; if I had but a comrade I would\nabide for some time longer. But now I will get ready a church\nfor the Friars who may be coming, and I will leave my things and\nthose of the martyrs, and all our books.\nFrom the Second letter\nLet me tell you that the fame of us Latins is more highly thought\nof among the people of India than among us Latins ourselves.\nNay, they are in continual expectation of the arrival of the Latins\nhere, which they say is clearly predicted in their books. And,\nmoreover, they are continually praying the Lord, after their\nmanner, to hasten this wished-for arrival of the Latins. If our\nlord the Pope would but establish a couple of galleys on this sea,\nwhat a gain it would be! And what damage and destruction\nto the Soldan of Alexandria! O, who will tell this to his holiness\nthe Pope? For me, wayfarer that I am, 'tis out of the question.\nBut I commit all to you, holy fathers. Fare ye well, then, holy\nfathers, and remember the pilgrim in your prayers. Pray for\nthe pilgrim of Christ, all of you, that the Indian converts, black\nas they are, may all be made white in soul before the good Jesus,\nthrough his pitiful grace. I end my words with many a sigh,\nmost heartily recommending myself to the prayers of all.\nDated in Thana of India, the city where my holy comrades\nwere martyred in the year of the Lord 1323, in the month of\nJanuary, and on the feast of the holy martyrs Fabian and Sebastian.\n25. ODORIC OF PORDENONE ON CHRISTIANS\nIN INDIA (c. 1324 A.D.)\nOdoric wrote an account of his travels in India, especially Malabar,\nPandarani, Cranganore, Quilon and Mylapore in C. 1324. Yule-\nCordier, Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. II, pp. 132 ff.\nAnd now that ye may know how pepper is got, let me tell you\nthat it groweth in a certain empire whereunto I came to land,\nthe name whereof is Minibar, and it groweth nowhere else in the\nworld but there. And the forest in which the pepper groweth\nH.C.I.-2",
      "status": "completed"
    }
  ]
}