{"pages":{"20":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00044-b5c67c383960a0b5e37d.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"20","box":{"x":136,"y":169,"width":42,"height":20}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":358,"y":177,"width":472,"height":20}},{"text":"and","box":{"x":987,"y":400,"width":55,"height":21}},{"text":"So the Apostle loosing the cord wherewith he was girt ordered","box":{"x":141,"y":222,"width":900,"height":35}},{"text":"his slaves to tie it to the log and draw ashore. And this being","box":{"x":140,"y":250,"width":903,"height":36}},{"text":"accomplished with the greatest ease, the king was converted,","box":{"x":139,"y":276,"width":904,"height":39}},{"text":"and bestowed upon the saint as much land as he could ride round","box":{"x":139,"y":306,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"upon his ass. So during the day-time he used to go on building","box":{"x":137,"y":334,"width":904,"height":36}},{"text":"his churches in the city, but at night he retired to a distance of three","box":{"x":137,"y":361,"width":903,"height":35}},{"text":"Italian miles, where there were numberless peacocks","box":{"x":141,"y":390,"width":788,"height":36}},{"text":"thus being shot in the side with an arrow such as is called friccia.","box":{"x":137,"y":418,"width":903,"height":35}},{"text":"(so that his wound was like that in the side of Christ into which","box":{"x":136,"y":446,"width":905,"height":31}},{"text":"he had thrust his hand), he lay there before his oratory from the","box":{"x":134,"y":475,"width":907,"height":36}},{"text":"hour of compline, continuing throughout the night to preach,","box":{"x":136,"y":503,"width":904,"height":36}},{"text":"whilst all his blessed blood was welling from his side; and in the","box":{"x":133,"y":529,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"morning he gave up his soul to God. The priests gathered up","box":{"x":134,"y":559,"width":905,"height":36}},{"text":"the earth with which his blood had mingled, and buried it with","box":{"x":136,"y":584,"width":903,"height":38}},{"text":"him. By means of this I experienced a distinct miracle twice","box":{"x":139,"y":613,"width":901,"height":35}},{"text":"over in my own person, which I shall relate elsewhere.","box":{"x":137,"y":642,"width":812,"height":34}},{"text":"Standing miracles are, however, to be seen there, in respect","box":{"x":182,"y":696,"width":855,"height":36}},{"text":"both of the opening of the sea, and and of the peacocks. Moreover,","box":{"x":137,"y":720,"width":901,"height":41}},{"text":"whatever quantity of that earth be removed from the grave one day,","box":{"x":131,"y":753,"width":907,"height":35}},{"text":"just as much is replaced spontaneously again the next. And","box":{"x":132,"y":781,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"when this earth is taken in a portion it cures diseases, and in this","box":{"x":133,"y":809,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"manner open miracles are wrought both among Christians and","box":{"x":134,"y":838,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"among Tartars and Pagans.","box":{"x":137,"y":868,"width":369,"height":28}},{"text":"The king also gave St. Thomas a perpetual grant of the public","box":{"x":182,"y":919,"width":854,"height":36}},{"text":"steelyard for pepper and all aromatic spices, and no one dares","box":{"x":134,"y":947,"width":898,"height":36}},{"text":"take this privilege from the Christians but at the peril of death.","box":{"x":137,"y":976,"width":896,"height":34}},{"text":"I spent four days there in an excellent pearl fishery at the","box":{"x":134,"y":1004,"width":901,"height":35}},{"text":"place.","box":{"x":130,"y":1033,"width":87,"height":28}},{"text":"28. NICOLO DE CONTI'S VISIT TO MYLAPORE","box":{"x":206,"y":1169,"width":759,"height":24}},{"text":"(1425-1430 A.D.)","box":{"x":434,"y":1200,"width":238,"height":29}},{"text":"Nicolo de Conti visited the tomb of St. Thomas at Mylapore and","box":{"x":220,"y":1277,"width":763,"height":29}},{"text":"makes reference to Nestorian Christians living there. A. E. Medly-","box":{"x":185,"y":1305,"width":798,"height":28}},{"text":"cott, India and the Apostle Thomas, p. 95.","box":{"x":183,"y":1329,"width":476,"height":27}},{"text":"Proceeding onwards the said Nicolo arrived at a maritime city,","box":{"x":175,"y":1391,"width":855,"height":35}},{"text":"which he named Malepur, situated in the second gulf Beyond the","box":{"x":127,"y":1419,"width":904,"height":32}},{"text":"Indus (Bay of Bengal). Here the body of St. Thomas lies honourably","box":{"x":130,"y":1448,"width":901,"height":35}},{"text":"buried in a large and beautiful church; it is worshipped (vene-","box":{"x":127,"y":1474,"width":903,"height":39}},{"text":"rated) by the heretics, who are called Nestorians, and inhabit this","box":{"x":133,"y":1502,"width":898,"height":35}},{"text":"city to the number of a thousand.","box":{"x":127,"y":1530,"width":511,"height":31}}]}}}