{"pages":{"44":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00068-fc6b0f05e394da509858.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"44","box":{"x":104,"y":134,"width":42,"height":17}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":327,"y":139,"width":473,"height":20}},{"text":"The king and the Bishop with a great following immediately reached","box":{"x":104,"y":186,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"the spot and saw the Apostle in a pool of blood with the fatal wound","box":{"x":105,"y":215,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"fresh and spear stuck to his side. Bishop Mar Poulose removed","box":{"x":106,"y":243,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"the spear, and as they were about to take the Apostle in their car","box":{"x":105,"y":272,"width":918,"height":29}},{"text":"for treatment, Mar Thoma spoke to them in a faint voice: 'No","box":{"x":108,"y":299,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"treatment is necessary for me now. The day of my great happiness","box":{"x":105,"y":329,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"is come.' He then spoke to the people who stood near him weeping,","box":{"x":106,"y":355,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"and three Nalikas (A Nalika is a time division of Malabar equivalent","box":{"x":105,"y":383,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"to twenty-four minutes) before sunset, the great Mar Thoma, alas!","box":{"x":105,"y":409,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"passed away.","box":{"x":102,"y":441,"width":182,"height":25}},{"text":"40. LETTER OF PIΜΕΝΤΑ ΤΟ THE GENERAL OF THE","box":{"x":99,"y":552,"width":915,"height":25}},{"text":"SOCIETY OF JESUS (1604 A.D.)","box":{"x":326,"y":585,"width":473,"height":31}},{"text":"This letter indicates the value to Portuguese political interests that","box":{"x":189,"y":646,"width":780,"height":29}},{"text":"Pimenta saw in the Romanisation of the Syrian Christians under","box":{"x":151,"y":672,"width":819,"height":27}},{"text":"Archbishop Menezes. In his letter he cites a letter he had received","box":{"x":151,"y":697,"width":816,"height":24}},{"text":"from the Archbishop. The original letter is in the British Museum","box":{"x":155,"y":721,"width":815,"height":27}},{"text":"in a collection of letters written by Jesuit missionaries on the Malabar","box":{"x":155,"y":746,"width":813,"height":28}},{"text":"coast. In translation it can be seen in Mackenzie, Christianity in","box":{"x":154,"y":771,"width":816,"height":28}},{"text":"Travancore, p. 70. Cited in J. N. Ogilvie, The Apostles of India, pp.","box":{"x":153,"y":796,"width":815,"height":28}},{"text":"158-159.","box":{"x":154,"y":822,"width":101,"height":18}},{"text":"How important was the step (the (the Romanising of the Syrian","box":{"x":144,"y":878,"width":875,"height":38}},{"text":"Church) and how greatly in the furure it was to promote the","box":{"x":99,"y":902,"width":918,"height":36}},{"text":"interests of the Portuguese Crown one can gain say who is aware","box":{"x":105,"y":934,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"of the fact of binding this race, which from the days of St. Thomas","box":{"x":102,"y":961,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"had alone in India held the faith, and could place in array thirty","box":{"x":101,"y":989,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"thousand armed men to the cause of Portugal, and of bringing them","box":{"x":102,"y":1018,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"under the obedience of the Roman See. What greatly helped in","box":{"x":99,"y":1044,"width":919,"height":34}},{"text":"effecting this, were the zeal displayed and the exemplary life of this","box":{"x":98,"y":1073,"width":919,"height":35}},{"text":"prelate (Archbishop Menezes). He in the space of nine months","box":{"x":99,"y":1101,"width":918,"height":36}},{"text":"did more, as our (Jesuit) Fathers attest, to promote the spiritual","box":{"x":95,"y":1127,"width":921,"height":36}},{"text":"welfare of these people than had been done from the Apostle's time","box":{"x":98,"y":1156,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"to our days by those who have occupied that See. How well","box":{"x":101,"y":1185,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"disposed this Prelate is towards ours, who labour in that section","box":{"x":98,"y":1212,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"of the Lord's vineyard, is shown by what he writes in the following","box":{"x":101,"y":1241,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"letter which is addressed to me:-","box":{"x":101,"y":1270,"width":476,"height":25}},{"text":"'The visitation through the Serra has often left me exhausted:","box":{"x":144,"y":1326,"width":871,"height":31}},{"text":"but I keep in mind what the Holy Ghost has said, Et bene patientes","box":{"x":94,"y":1354,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"erunt ut annuntient (Ps. XCI. 15-16). In what state I was able to","box":{"x":95,"y":1383,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"leave the affairs of these (Syrian) Christians, the (Jesuit) Fathers","box":{"x":95,"y":1411,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"must have written you, so I say nothing. One thing I will say to","box":{"x":97,"y":1439,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"your Reverence-had I spent the winter here in Goa, those churches","box":{"x":97,"y":1467,"width":914,"height":29}},{"text":"would have been lost nor would I have saved my conscience,","box":{"x":95,"y":1495,"width":914,"height":35}}]}}}