{"pages":{"8":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00032-0983ca2186f7285736ec.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"8","box":{"x":175,"y":160,"width":22,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":395,"y":164,"width":467,"height":17}},{"text":"him both with the particulars of his wanderings and the hopes","box":{"x":175,"y":211,"width":900,"height":31}},{"text":"Indians had of receiving Christianity. He also begged him to send a","box":{"x":176,"y":241,"width":897,"height":29}},{"text":"bishop and clergy there, and by no means to neglect those who","box":{"x":172,"y":267,"width":904,"height":31}},{"text":"might thus be brought to salvation. Athanasius having considered","box":{"x":176,"y":294,"width":897,"height":31}},{"text":"how this could be most profitably effected, requested","box":{"x":175,"y":322,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"Frumentius himself to accept the bishopric, declaring","box":{"x":176,"y":350,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"that he could appoint no one more suitable than he was.","box":{"x":175,"y":380,"width":901,"height":31}},{"text":"Accordingly this was done Frumentius invested with episcopal","box":{"x":172,"y":408,"width":904,"height":29}},{"text":"authority, returned to India and became there a preacher of the","box":{"x":181,"y":434,"width":896,"height":31}},{"text":"Gospel, and built several churches, being aided also by divine","box":{"x":172,"y":462,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"grace, he performed various miracles, healing with the souls also","box":{"x":178,"y":492,"width":900,"height":29}},{"text":"the bodily diseases of many. Rufinus assures us that he heard","box":{"x":179,"y":519,"width":897,"height":28}},{"text":"these facts from Edesius, who was afterwards ordained to the","box":{"x":178,"y":547,"width":900,"height":29}},{"text":"priesthood at Tyre.","box":{"x":176,"y":577,"width":259,"height":27}},{"text":"11. GREGORY OF TOURS ON THE REMAINS OF","box":{"x":269,"y":660,"width":728,"height":22}},{"text":"ST. THOMAS (538-593 A.D.)","box":{"x":424,"y":689,"width":406,"height":28}},{"text":"Gregory received information concerning the tomb of St. Thomas","box":{"x":255,"y":738,"width":767,"height":25}},{"text":"in India from a pilgrim named Theodore who had visited it. Mira-","box":{"x":224,"y":765,"width":798,"height":24}},{"text":"culorum Liber, 1.32. Patrologia Latina, 71.733. Cited in A. C. Peru-","box":{"x":220,"y":790,"width":801,"height":24}},{"text":"malil, The Apostles in India, p. 75.","box":{"x":221,"y":815,"width":390,"height":27}},{"text":"His (Thomas') holy remains after a long time were removed","box":{"x":213,"y":867,"width":857,"height":31}},{"text":"to the city of Edessa in Syria and there interred. In that part of","box":{"x":171,"y":896,"width":903,"height":31}},{"text":"India where they first rested, stands a monastery church of striking","box":{"x":171,"y":923,"width":897,"height":35}},{"text":"This Theodore who had been to the place","box":{"x":409,"y":951,"width":662,"height":34}},{"text":"dimensions","box":{"x":168,"y":952,"width":153,"height":21}},{"text":"narrated to us.","box":{"x":174,"y":980,"width":196,"height":22}},{"text":"12. COSMAS INDICOPLEUSTES ON CHRISTIANS IN","box":{"x":168,"y":1064,"width":900,"height":25}},{"text":"INDIA (c. 547 A.D.)","box":{"x":481,"y":1095,"width":273,"height":27}},{"text":"Cosmas travelled to India in c. 520-525 A.D. He was a Nestorian","box":{"x":227,"y":1145,"width":788,"height":24}},{"text":"Christian. He wrote a book, Christian Topography, in which he gave","box":{"x":213,"y":1170,"width":805,"height":29}},{"text":"details concerning the Christians he found in Malabar and Sri Lanka.","box":{"x":214,"y":1195,"width":802,"height":24}},{"text":"The extract is from Christian Topography, III. 178. English transla-","box":{"x":213,"y":1220,"width":802,"height":28}},{"text":"tions are found in J.W. McCrindle, The Christian Topography of Cosmas","box":{"x":213,"y":1247,"width":803,"height":27}},{"text":"Indicopleustes, p. 118 ff, and B. J. Kidd, Documents Illustrative of the","box":{"x":216,"y":1271,"width":802,"height":27}},{"text":"History of the Church, Vol. III, p. 31.","box":{"x":210,"y":1298,"width":437,"height":24}},{"text":"Even in Taprobene (Ceylon), an island in Further India, where:","box":{"x":207,"y":1354,"width":861,"height":34}},{"text":"the Indian sea is, there is a church of Christians, with clergy and","box":{"x":161,"y":1385,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"a body of believers, but I know not whether thereby any Christians.","box":{"x":162,"y":1413,"width":901,"height":29}},{"text":"in the parts beyond it. In the country called Male (Malabar), where","box":{"x":164,"y":1439,"width":896,"height":34}},{"text":"the pepper grows, there is also a church, and at another place called.","box":{"x":160,"y":1471,"width":904,"height":29}},{"text":"Calliana (Quilon) there is moreover a bishop, who is appointed","box":{"x":160,"y":1497,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"from Persia. In the island again called the island of Dioscorides","box":{"x":158,"y":1524,"width":904,"height":31}}]}}}