{ "book_metadata": { "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials", "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose", "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge", "published_on": "2011" }, "chunks": [ { "chunk_index": 1, "chapter_name": "1862. Memorial of the Catholics of Madras to the King of Portugal", "page_numbers": [ 194 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00218-5c7afbc2c303f2b35aae.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Memorial Context and Purpose", "chunk_data": "115. MEMORIAL OF THE CATHOLICS OF MADRAS TO THE KING OF PORTUGAL, 1862 A.D.\n\nThis memorial sent by the Catholics of Madras to the King of Portugal represents the continuing efforts of the Padroado missionaries and Christians loyal to them to have the terms of the Concordat between the King of Portugal and the Pope implemented in their favour. This implies filling vacant positions and strengthening institutions under the Padroado; thus refuting the charge levelled by the Propaganda that the Portuguese Crown was not fulfilling its responsibilities. Cited in Jno. Godinho, The Padroado of Portugal in the Orient (1454-1860), pp. 194-196.", "time": { "start_year": 1862, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1862, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1862" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Padroado missionaries", "Catholics of Madras", "King of Portugal", "The Pope" ], "places": [ "Madras", "Portugal", "India" ], "event": "Catholics of Madras petitioned the King of Portugal to implement the Concordat and strengthen Padroado institutions.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Politics", "Church Institutions" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 2, "chapter_name": "1862. Memorial of the Catholics of Madras to the King of Portugal", "page_numbers": [ 194 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00218-5c7afbc2c303f2b35aae.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Catholics Address King Luis", "chunk_data": "To His Most Faithful Majesty Dom Luis, King of Portugal and Algarves and the Royal Patron of the Church in the Orient.\n\nSire, We the undersigned Roman Catholic inhabitants of the city of Madras, and the humble subjects of our noble Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, crave permission to place this representation before Your Most Faithful Majesty. With a profound sense of gratitude for having by the sacrifice of much money and blood of your subjects introduced the Catholic Faith in these regions, and equally, for the continuous aid and protection given to our Holy Religion up to this date, we offer our sincere and cordial acknowledgements as also for the benefit secured to us in the terms of the Concordata, recently adjusted between Your Majesty and the Holy See with the pious intention to promote the interest of religion and the well-being of the Catholic Church; and also to remedy the evil from which the Indian Churches have been suffering for the last 27 years; and thus to restore to us the peace and tranquility, of which we have been deprived by the ministers of the Sanctuary.", "time": { "start_year": 1862, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1862, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1862" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Dom Luis", "Queen Victoria", "Catholics of Madras" ], "places": [ "Madras", "Portugal", "India" ], "event": "The Catholics of Madras presented their memorial and expressed gratitude for Portuguese support and the new Concordat.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Politics", "Catholic Church" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 3, "chapter_name": "1862. Memorial of the Catholics of Madras to the King of Portugal", "page_numbers": [ 194 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00218-5c7afbc2c303f2b35aae.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Loyalty to Queen Victoria", "chunk_data": "Born under British dominion and enjoying all the privileges of British subjects, we are bound by inseparable ties, to the British nation, and as persons instructed in our Holy Faith, to give Caesar what is his, and to God what is His, neither the difference in creed, nor any other influence swerves us from the respect, obedience and fidelity which we owe to our August Sovereign, Queen Victoria.", "time": { "start_year": 1862, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1862, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1862" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Catholics of Madras", "Queen Victoria" ], "places": [ "Madras", "British India" ], "event": "The Catholics of Madras affirmed their loyalty and obedience to Queen Victoria while maintaining their religious allegiance.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Politics", "Colonial India" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 4, "chapter_name": "1862. Memorial of the Catholics of Madras to the King of Portugal", "page_numbers": [ 194 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00218-5c7afbc2c303f2b35aae.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Following Padroado Pastors", "chunk_data": "As however, for successive centuries, we have been under the ecclesiastical discipline of the Churches, and under the spiritual guidance of the prelates of His Most Faithful Majesty, we shall humbly attend and follow the voice of those Pastors in spiritual matters.", "time": { "start_year": 1862, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1862, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1862" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Catholics of Madras", "Padroado prelates" ], "places": [ "Madras" ], "event": "The Catholics of Madras declared that they would follow the spiritual guidance of the Padroado prelates.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Authority" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 5, "chapter_name": "1862. Memorial of the Catholics of Madras to the King of Portugal", "page_numbers": [ 195 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00219-67552e26154e0eca51d7.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Appeal to End Church Disorder", "chunk_data": "Your Majesty is no doubt well informed of the disorganised state of the Roman Catholic Society and for the disorders introduced in these regions by the missionaries of the Sacred Congregation De Propaganda Fide. It is also obvious that the long and protracted vacancies of the Sees of India have given occasion for the perpetuation of these disorders. Convinced of the necessity to fill up these vacancies, and more adequately to provide for the necessities of religion, the Royal predecessor of Your Majesty (Dom Pedro V) stipulated a new Concordata, but although it was ratified on the 20th September 1859, His Majesty had not the happiness of seeing it put into execution in India. We have no definite news, if this delay is due to the Government of Your Majesty or to the Holy See of Rome. Whatever may be the cause, or the motives of this delay, we most respectfully bring to the notice of Your Majesty the afflictions and miseries we are suffering in the present state of affairs. We supplicate Your Majesty, that in consultation with His Holiness, to put into execution the new Concordata, to nominate Prelates to the vacant Sees, especially to those where we are subjects, and to send missionaries capable of attending to the spiritual needs of the different races composing the Roman Catholic Community in India.", "time": { "start_year": 1859, "start_month": 9, "start_date": 20, "end_year": 1862, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1859-1862" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Dom Pedro V", "King Luis", "Missionaries of the Sacred Congregation De Propaganda Fide", "Catholics of Madras" ], "places": [ "India", "Rome", "Madras" ], "event": "The Catholics of Madras appealed for implementation of the Concordat ratified in 1859, appointments to vacant sees, and capable missionaries.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Governance", "Politics" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 6, "chapter_name": "1862. Memorial of the Catholics of Madras to the King of Portugal", "page_numbers": [ 195 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00219-67552e26154e0eca51d7.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Need for Local Missionaries", "chunk_data": "Howsoever excellent the provisions of the Concordata, yet we are afraid that the interests of the religion will suffer, if the churches in India have always to be dependent on Europe for the supply of missionaries, who have to be sent at great cost and who, after their arrival have to learn the Indian vernaculars and study the customs and habits of the country, before they can render any service. Without local colleges and seminaries this vast region will always be dependent for missionaries on the little territory of Goa. Nor in any other manner, can the various needs of India be satisfied, if we have at heart the interest of religion, the propagation of the Catholic Faith and the conversion of the pagans. Apart from the economy of this plan, the Catholic population of India will always be grateful to Your Majesty for planting such institutions in this soil.", "time": { "start_year": 1862, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1862, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1862" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Catholics of Madras", "Missionaries" ], "places": [ "India", "Europe", "Goa" ], "event": "The memorialists argued that India needed local colleges and seminaries to train missionaries rather than relying on Europe and Goa.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Education", "Missionary Activity" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 7, "chapter_name": "1862. Memorial of the Catholics of Madras to the King of Portugal", "page_numbers": [ 195 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00219-67552e26154e0eca51d7.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Proposed College at St. Thome", "chunk_data": "We, however, submit to the benign consideration of Your Majesty the necessity of establishing, as soon as possible, a college in this See of St. Thome, wherein instruction may be imparted in arts and sciences, in theology and canon law, with the object of finding among many, some who may enter the sacred orders. Those who have no vocation for the ministerial office, will be better qualified to serve the churches and the State. The funds available in Madras are too little for such an enterprise. The Catholics are just recovering from their civil and religious inabilities, and have hardly enough for the sustenance of life. However they will gladly contribute what they can. But as the advantages from such an institution will be more to the benefit of the British State, and of British subjects, we are quite hopeful that if Your Majesty enters", "time": { "start_year": 1862, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1862, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1862" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Catholics of Madras", "King Luis" ], "places": [ "St. Thome", "Madras", "British India" ], "event": "The Catholics of Madras requested that the King of Portugal establish a college at St. Thome for instruction in theology, canon law, arts, and sciences.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Education", "Church Institutions" ] } } ] }