{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 22,
  "chapterName": "c.1292-1293. Friar Menentillus’ Letter from John of Monte Corvino on the Condition of Christians in India",
  "pageFrom": 16,
  "pageTo": 16,
  "pages": [
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      "pageNumber": 16,
      "ocrText": "$16\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\n22. FRIAR MENENTILLUS' LETTER FROM JOHN OF\nMONTE CORVINO ON THE CONDITION OF CHRISTIANS\nIN INDIA (c. 1292-1293 A.D.)\nFriar Menentillus, a Dominican, forwarded a copy of a letter from\nJohn of Monte Corvino in which the condition of Christians in India\nis described. Yule-Cordier, Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. III,\np. 63.\nThe state of things as regards the inhabitants of India is as\nfollows:\nIn the regions by the sea are many Saracenes, and they have\ngreat influence but there are few of them in the interior. There are\na very ery few Christians, and Jews, and they are of little weight.\nThe people persecute much the Christians, and all who bear the\nChristian name.\n23. JOHN OF MONTE CORVINO ON HIS VISIT TO INDIA\n(1305 A.D.)\nJohn of Monte Corvino was a Franciscan who spent some time in\nIndia on his way to China. His letter from Peking, dated January 8,\n1305, to the Minister-General of his order tells of his visit to India.\nYule-Cordier, Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. III, p. 45.\nI, Friar John of Monte Corvino, of the order of Minor Friars,\ndeparted from Tauris, a city of the Persians, in the year of the Lord\n1291 and proceeded to India. And I remained in the country of\nIndia, wherein stands the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, for\nthirteen months, and in that region baptized in different places\nabout one hundred persons..\n24. LETTERS OF FRIAR JORDANUS OF THANA\n(1321 A.D.)\nTwo letters of Friar Jordanus, the Dominican who remained to\nwork in Thana, near the present Bombay, following the martyrdom of\nhis companions, are extant. Yule-Cordier, Cathay and the Way\nThither, Vol. III pp. 76 ff.\nFrom the First Letter\nAll your venerable company of fathers is aware that I am left\nalone a poor pilgrim in India, where for my sins I have been allowed\nto survive after the passion of those blessed martyrs, Thomas the",
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}