{"pages":{"16":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00040-0e4389118571e22d859c.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"$16","box":{"x":125,"y":151,"width":45,"height":20}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":350,"y":160,"width":473,"height":22}},{"text":"22. FRIAR MENENTILLUS' LETTER FROM JOHN OF","box":{"x":131,"y":228,"width":904,"height":25}},{"text":"MONTE CORVINO ON THE CONDITION OF CHRISTIANS","box":{"x":133,"y":258,"width":904,"height":25}},{"text":"IN INDIA (c. 1292-1293 A.D.)","box":{"x":396,"y":288,"width":411,"height":29}},{"text":"Friar Menentillus, a Dominican, forwarded a copy of a letter from","box":{"x":217,"y":345,"width":768,"height":29}},{"text":"John of Monte Corvino in which the condition of Christians in India","box":{"x":178,"y":370,"width":809,"height":25}},{"text":"is described. Yule-Cordier, Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. III,","box":{"x":180,"y":396,"width":806,"height":28}},{"text":"p. 63.","box":{"x":176,"y":419,"width":76,"height":21}},{"text":"The state of things as regards the inhabitants of India is as","box":{"x":172,"y":477,"width":859,"height":32}},{"text":"follows:","box":{"x":126,"y":502,"width":123,"height":22}},{"text":"In the regions by the sea are many Saracenes, and they have","box":{"x":227,"y":550,"width":802,"height":34}},{"text":"great influence but there are few of them in the interior. There are","box":{"x":119,"y":575,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"a very ery few Christians, and Jews, and they are of little weight.","box":{"x":123,"y":606,"width":907,"height":36}},{"text":"The people persecute much the Christians, and all who bear the","box":{"x":115,"y":631,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"Christian name.","box":{"x":119,"y":658,"width":221,"height":25}},{"text":"23. JOHN OF MONTE CORVINO ON HIS VISIT TO INDIA","box":{"x":122,"y":750,"width":905,"height":29}},{"text":"(1305 A.D.)","box":{"x":492,"y":782,"width":162,"height":29}},{"text":"John of Monte Corvino was a Franciscan who spent some time in","box":{"x":208,"y":839,"width":768,"height":28}},{"text":"India on his way to China. His letter from Peking, dated January 8,","box":{"x":171,"y":863,"width":805,"height":31}},{"text":"1305, to the Minister-General of his order tells of his visit to India.","box":{"x":169,"y":888,"width":806,"height":27}},{"text":"Yule-Cordier, Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. III, p. 45.","box":{"x":165,"y":914,"width":705,"height":29}},{"text":"I, Friar John of Monte Corvino, of the order of Minor Friars,","box":{"x":164,"y":972,"width":858,"height":29}},{"text":"departed from Tauris, a city of the Persians, in the year of the Lord","box":{"x":117,"y":1000,"width":904,"height":32}},{"text":"1291 and proceeded to India. And I remained in the country of","box":{"x":110,"y":1026,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"India, wherein stands the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, for","box":{"x":110,"y":1052,"width":911,"height":38}},{"text":"thirteen months, and in that region baptized in different places","box":{"x":109,"y":1081,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"about one hundred persons..","box":{"x":115,"y":1108,"width":402,"height":31}},{"text":"24. LETTERS OF FRIAR JORDANUS OF THANA","box":{"x":173,"y":1194,"width":782,"height":29}},{"text":"(1321 A.D.)","box":{"x":472,"y":1224,"width":175,"height":31}},{"text":"Two letters of Friar Jordanus, the Dominican who remained to","box":{"x":197,"y":1282,"width":768,"height":27}},{"text":"work in Thana, near the present Bombay, following the martyrdom of","box":{"x":155,"y":1308,"width":813,"height":31}},{"text":"his companions, are extant. Yule-Cordier, Cathay and the Way","box":{"x":159,"y":1332,"width":803,"height":31}},{"text":"Thither, Vol. III pp. 76 ff.","box":{"x":161,"y":1355,"width":315,"height":28}},{"text":"From the First Letter","box":{"x":410,"y":1415,"width":301,"height":27}},{"text":"All your venerable company of fathers is aware that I am left","box":{"x":145,"y":1457,"width":865,"height":35}},{"text":"alone a poor pilgrim in India, where for my sins I have been allowed","box":{"x":102,"y":1485,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"to survive after the passion of those blessed martyrs, Thomas the","box":{"x":102,"y":1510,"width":907,"height":38}}]}}}