{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 30,
  "chapterName": "c.1515. Duarte Barbosa on the Tomb of St. Thomas",
  "pageFrom": 25,
  "pageTo": 25,
  "pages": [
    {
      "pageNumber": 25,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n25\nthey were greatly pleased with us. After that we left them and\nwent to our Christians, who were eight days distant from there.\n\"The number of all those Franks amounted to not more than\nabout four hundred men, but their fear and dread is in the heart\nof all the pagans and Mohammedans found in these countries.\nThe country of these Franks is called Portugal, which is one of\nthe countries of the Franks, and their king is called Emmanuel.\nMay Emmanuel protect him!\n'Do not blame us, O brethren, for the length of this letter. We\ndesired and wish to tell you all the above things. May our Lord\nbe with us all and in us all! Amen!'.\n30. DUARTE BARBOSA ON THE TOMB OF\nST. THOMAS (c. 1515 A.D.)\nDuarte Barbosa gives an account of his visit to the tomb of St.\nThomas at Mylapore in C. 1515 A.D. Barbosa, 99. Cited in Mansel\nLongworth Dames, The Book of Duarte Barbosa, Vol. II, pp. 126-129,\nand A. C. Perumalil, The Apostles in India, pp. 72, 82.\nGoing yet further and leaving behind Charamandal and the\nlands, there is on the sea strand a city, which is right ancient and\nalmost deserted, called Mylapur, which erewhile was very great\nand fair, pertaining to the Kingdom of Narasyngua. Here lies\nburied the body of the blessed Saint Thomas in a little church\nnear the sea\nHere (in Mylapur) lies buried the body of the Blessed\nsaint Thomas very modestly in the church which his disciples and\nfellows built for him. The Moors and Heathen used to burn\nlights on it, each one claiming it as his own. The church is arranged.\nin our fashion with crosses on the altar and on the summit of the\nvault, and a wooden grating, and peacocks as devices, but it is now\nvery ruinous, and all around it covered with brushwood, and a\npoor Moor holds charge of it and begs alms for it, from which a\nlamp is kept burning at night, and on what is left they live. Some\nIndian Christians go there on pilgrimage and carry away many\nrelics, little earthen balls from the same tomb of the Blessed Saint\nThomas, an and also give alms ms to the aforesaid Moor, telling him\nto repair the said house.",
      "status": "completed"
    }
  ]
}