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      "chunk_data": "40. LETTER OF PIMENTA TO THE GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS (1604 A.D.)\nThis letter indicates the value to Portuguese political interests that Pimenta saw in the Romanisation of the Syrian Christians under Archbishop Menezes.",
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      "chunk_data": "In translation it can be seen in Mackenzie, Christianity in Travancore, p. 70. Cited in J. N. Ogilvie, The Apostles of India, pp. 158-159.",
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      "chunk_data": "How important was the step (the Romanising of the Syrian Church) and how greatly in the future it was to promote the interests of the Portuguese Crown one can gainsay who is aware of the fact of binding this race, which from the days of St. Thomas had alone in India held the faith, and could place in array thirty thousand armed men to the cause of Portugal, and of bringing them under the obedience of the Roman See.",
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      "chunk_data": "He in the space of nine months did more, as our (Jesuit) Fathers attest, to promote the spiritual welfare of these people than had been done from the Apostle's time to our days by those who have occupied that See.",
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      "chunk_data": "How well disposed this Prelate is towards ours, who labour in that section of the Lord's vineyard, is shown by what he writes in the following letter which is addressed to me:-",
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      "chunk_data": "'The visitation through the Serra has often left me exhausted: but I keep in mind what the Holy Ghost has said, Et bene patientes erunt ut annuntient (Ps. XCI. 15-16).",
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      "chunk_data": "In what state I was able to leave the affairs of these (Syrian) Christians, the (Jesuit) Fathers must have written you, so I say nothing.",
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