{"pages":{"26":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00050-628fe6cac0b6f76d7609.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"26","box":{"x":112,"y":141,"width":38,"height":17}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":334,"y":146,"width":473,"height":20}},{"text":"31. FIRST INQUISITION AT GOA (1543 A.D.)","box":{"x":216,"y":202,"width":707,"height":29}},{"text":"Though the Inquisition was officially instituted at Goa only in","box":{"x":200,"y":252,"width":774,"height":29}},{"text":"1560, it was anticipated in the incident described by Gasper Correia in","box":{"x":162,"y":279,"width":810,"height":25}},{"text":"Lendas da India, Livro quarto, Tomo IV, pp. 292-294, cited in A. K.","box":{"x":164,"y":304,"width":808,"height":27}},{"text":"Priolkar, The Goa Inquisition, pp. 22-23.","box":{"x":164,"y":329,"width":474,"height":24}},{"text":"In this very year (1543) it came to pass that a bachelor of","box":{"x":160,"y":373,"width":862,"height":34}},{"text":"medicine residing in Goa, named Jeronimo Dias, of the caste of","box":{"x":112,"y":401,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"New Christians, in the course of familiar discourses with his friends,","box":{"x":108,"y":429,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"spoke of certain things which were against our holy faith. The","box":{"x":113,"y":457,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"bishop, on being informed of this, ordered that he should be arrested","box":{"x":111,"y":483,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"and tried and that witnesses should be examined. When arrested,","box":{"x":111,"y":512,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"together with certain other persons who had discoursed with him,","box":{"x":112,"y":540,"width":908,"height":35}},{"text":"he continued to uphold certain things of the old law against our","box":{"x":108,"y":568,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"holy faith, all of which showed clearly that he was a Jew, and the","box":{"x":111,"y":596,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"proceedings were concluded. The bishop thereupon went to the","box":{"x":109,"y":624,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"residence of the Governor where a council was held, at which were","box":{"x":113,"y":650,"width":904,"height":35}},{"text":"also present the teacher Diogo (Borba), Friar Antonio, commis-","box":{"x":109,"y":681,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"sary of St. Francis and preacher, another Dominican preacher and","box":{"x":112,"y":710,"width":905,"height":31}},{"text":"the Vicar General (Miguel Vaz). Having seen the papers of the","box":{"x":112,"y":736,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"case, they pronounced sentence, which was signed by the Bishop","box":{"x":110,"y":763,"width":907,"height":36}},{"text":"and ran as follows: 'Having seen the sentence of the Holy Church,","box":{"x":110,"y":790,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"in which bachelor Jeronimo Dias, stands condemned in a case of","box":{"x":112,"y":819,"width":908,"height":29}},{"text":"heresy, the justice of our sire the King, pronounces sentence to the","box":{"x":106,"y":846,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"effect that in respect of the said case, by public proclamation your","box":{"x":108,"y":875,"width":910,"height":36}},{"text":"body be burnt alive and reduced to ashes, for heresy against our","box":{"x":106,"y":904,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"holy Catholic faith. In case you seek pardon and repent and","box":{"x":108,"y":930,"width":908,"height":35}},{"text":"confess your error and desire to die as a Christian, you shall be","box":{"x":106,"y":959,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"first strangled to death so that you may not feel the torments of","box":{"x":112,"y":987,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"fire. While the case was thus being dealt with by the Governor's","box":{"x":111,"y":1015,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"council, teacher Diogo spoke to the bachelor and sternly rebuked","box":{"x":106,"y":1042,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"him. As a result, the latter was made to repent and realize his","box":{"x":109,"y":1070,"width":905,"height":35}},{"text":"error, so that when the secular sentence was pronounced as stated","box":{"x":105,"y":1099,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"above, he heard it patiently, thus accusing himself of his sin in public.","box":{"x":108,"y":1121,"width":908,"height":41}},{"text":"Soon he was sent to the prison, where he asked for confession and","box":{"x":106,"y":1148,"width":908,"height":38}},{"text":"was confessed by teacher Diogo. He was taken to the pillory,","box":{"x":105,"y":1180,"width":908,"height":36}},{"text":"accompanied as an act of mercy by teacher Diogo who accom-","box":{"x":105,"y":1211,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"panied him until he was strangled, and was burnt and was reduced","box":{"x":105,"y":1238,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"to ashes.","box":{"x":106,"y":1266,"width":126,"height":24}},{"text":"Soon after, on the following Sunday, the bishop preached at","box":{"x":152,"y":1307,"width":859,"height":35}},{"text":"the Cathedral Church. From the pulpit he read the bull of the","box":{"x":106,"y":1335,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"Holy Inquisition, and gave information only of the penalty of","box":{"x":103,"y":1364,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"excommunication in order that all those who learnt of the errors of","box":{"x":106,"y":1392,"width":908,"height":29}},{"text":"Christian men and women who in their lives or usages practise","box":{"x":105,"y":1420,"width":904,"height":36}},{"text":"heresies against our Holy faith should disclose the same; the other","box":{"x":108,"y":1450,"width":903,"height":29}},{"text":"provisions of the Holy Inquisition would not be used for the","box":{"x":106,"y":1475,"width":904,"height":34}},{"text":"present until express orders of our sire the king were received.","box":{"x":105,"y":1503,"width":848,"height":34}}]}}}