{"pages":{"45":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00069-cb37b9beaeb3f1bb5eb4.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":483,"y":178,"width":248,"height":18}},{"text":"45","box":{"x":1020,"y":179,"width":45,"height":20}},{"text":"at a time when the flock was mine, and was sadly in need of","box":{"x":150,"y":223,"width":802,"height":34}},{"text":"of pastoral","box":{"x":914,"y":232,"width":154,"height":31}},{"text":"care and Catholic teaching, had I abandoned it and had I not","box":{"x":148,"y":254,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"rather fed it with healthful doctrine, as I did, and do, with the","box":{"x":154,"y":278,"width":911,"height":36}},{"text":"Fathers of the Society to accompany me. I beg and entreat your","box":{"x":150,"y":309,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"Reverence to realise how acceptable to me is the almost unbearable","box":{"x":150,"y":334,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"burden they sustain in cultivating and expanding the vineyard.","box":{"x":150,"y":363,"width":914,"height":36}},{"text":"The love, the charity, with which they endure all things for God's","box":{"x":150,"y":391,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"sake, has bound me by no slight ties to them, for without them I","box":{"x":147,"y":420,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"would have done nothing. Supported by them frequently I learned","box":{"x":147,"y":447,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"to throw row off the clouds of troubles and anxieties, which weigh","box":{"x":148,"y":475,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"upon me, at times tepid and imperfect. May the Lord reward","box":{"x":145,"y":504,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"them in heaven, and may your Reverence bestow upon them a","box":{"x":144,"y":528,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"copious blessing. The Residence of the Fathers at Angamali has","box":{"x":148,"y":558,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"been opened with the approval of all. Let not your Reverence","box":{"x":144,"y":585,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"have any doubt. The entire salvation of these Christians depends","box":{"x":144,"y":614,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"upon the Residence in the Serra.'","box":{"x":146,"y":643,"width":452,"height":27}},{"text":"41. ROBERT DE NOBILI'S LETTER TO BELLARMINE","box":{"x":141,"y":731,"width":914,"height":28}},{"text":"(1607 A.D.)","box":{"x":504,"y":763,"width":167,"height":29}},{"text":"This letter, written from Madurai on 1 December 1607, gives","box":{"x":232,"y":819,"width":773,"height":28}},{"text":"an acount of the style of life de Nobili had adopted to accommodate","box":{"x":193,"y":845,"width":812,"height":27}},{"text":"himself to the high caste Hindus. Cited in Vincent Cronin, A Pearl","box":{"x":192,"y":868,"width":815,"height":28}},{"text":"to India, pp. 74-75.","box":{"x":195,"y":896,"width":220,"height":24}},{"text":"The way of life which necessity has compelled me to adopt is","box":{"x":239,"y":952,"width":816,"height":34}},{"text":"this: I always remain confined to my little cabin. After rising and","box":{"x":138,"y":977,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"saying Mass and commending myself to the Lord, I admit any one","box":{"x":141,"y":1005,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"who wishes to come to talk or discuss with me. The rest of the","box":{"x":137,"y":1032,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"time, which is very short, I devote to writing refutations of some of","box":{"x":134,"y":1061,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"the chief doctrines of these people, in their own language, which is","box":{"x":141,"y":1090,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"very beautiful, copious and most elegant. As I never stir from","box":{"x":140,"y":1118,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"my house and the nourishment I take is not very substantial, I am","box":{"x":140,"y":1146,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"always ill, and rare are the days when I do not feel some pain in","box":{"x":139,"y":1175,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"the stomach or in the head. My food consists of a little rice-","box":{"x":134,"y":1201,"width":922,"height":31}},{"text":"abundant in this country with some herbs and fruit; neither","box":{"x":141,"y":1229,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"meat nor eggs ever cross my threshold. It is necessary to observe","box":{"x":137,"y":1259,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"all these, for if these people did not see me do such penance, they","box":{"x":133,"y":1286,"width":919,"height":34}},{"text":"would not receive me as one who can teach them the way to heaven,","box":{"x":133,"y":1312,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"because that is the way of life their own teachers observe. Some","box":{"x":137,"y":1340,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"of them lead an even more austere life, abstaining even from rice,","box":{"x":139,"y":1367,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"which means a good deal, for your Eminence must know that here","box":{"x":134,"y":1396,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"we use neither bread nor wine, except at the Holy Sacrifice, so that","box":{"x":134,"y":1424,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"if we do away with rice you may imagine what remains.","box":{"x":139,"y":1450,"width":760,"height":32}},{"text":"As for me I do not venture to go so far, because my abstinence","box":{"x":176,"y":1501,"width":871,"height":34}},{"text":"from meat, fish and eggs is enough to persuade these people to","box":{"x":136,"y":1528,"width":910,"height":35}}]}}}