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574: 411: 617:, and to the captains of Cochin so that he may receive the honour and respect which he deserves when he comes to them with a request on behalf of the Christians of St. Thomas. Your Highness should write to him and earnestly entreat him to undertake the charge of recommending you to God, since YH. has a greater need of being supported by the prayers of the bishop than the bishop has need of the temporal assistance of Y.H. He has endured much in his work with the Christians of 646:, which tended to foster a uniformity of belief and practice. It is possible to follow the lines of argument of young Portuguese historians, such as Joéo Paulo Oliveira e Cosca, yet such arguments seem to discount the Portuguese cultural nationalism in their colonial expansion and the treatment of the natives. Documents recently found in the Portuguese national archives help to confirm a greater openness or pragmatism in the first half of the 16th century. 31: 303: 186: 323:
In 1122, Mar John, Metropolitan-designate of India, with his suffragans went to Constantinople, thence to Rome, and received the pallium from Pope Callixtus II. He related to the Pope and the cardinals the miracles that were wrought at the tomb of St. Thomas at Mylapore. These visits, apparently from
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has been serving God and Your Highness in these regions for forty-five years. He is a very old, virtuous, and saintly man, and, at the same time, one who has been neglected by Your Highness and by almost all of those who are in India. God is granting him his reward, since he desires to assist Him by
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When the Portuguese arrived in Malabar, they assumed that the four bishops present were Nestorian. Their report of 1504, addressed to the Chaldean Patriarch, their being startled by the absence of images and by the use of leavened bread; but this was in accordance with Chaldean usage. The Christians
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The destruction of all Syriac books considered heretical at the Synod of Diamper (1599) and the Romanization of the rite (though Syriac was still allowed) witness to the domineering character of the European hierarchy in India. Any attempts to contact bishops — even Chald. Catholic ones — in the
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The local patriarch—representing the Assyrian Church of the East, to which ancient Christians in India had looked for ecclesiastical authority—was then removed from jurisdiction in India and replaced by a Portuguese bishop; the East Syrian liturgy of Addai and Mari was "purified from error"; and
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Fifteen thousand paces from Cochin there is a fortress owned by the king with the name of Cranganore. It has a beautiful college, built by Frey , a companion of the bishop, in which there are easily a hundred students, sons of native Christians, who are named after St. Thomas. There are sixty
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of 1599 marked the formal subjugation of the Malabar Syriac Christian community to the Latin Church. It implemented various liturgical and structural reforms in the Indian Church. The diocese of Angamaly, which was now formally placed under the Portuguese Padroado and made suffragan to the
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himself, without employing us as a means to console his servants. He is being helped here solely by the priests of St. Francis. Y. H. should write a very affectionate letter to him, and one of its paragraphs should include an order recommending him to the governors, to the
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text on the one hand, while parts of the legend will support the Indian origin on the other. Firstly, India is mentioned several times in these letters (pp. 41, 89, 107, 119, and more). Secondly, Kalicut which was one of the most important port cities in
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John. There were over one hundred different versions of the letter published over the next few centuries. Most often, the letter was addressed to Emanuel I, the Byzantine Emperor of Rome, though some were addressed to the Pope or the King of France.
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villages of these Thomas Christians around this fortress, and the students for the college as I have said, are obtained from them. There are two churches in Cranganore, one of St. Thomas, which is highly revered by the Thomas Christians.
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At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the Indian church was again dependent upon the Church of the East. The dating formula in the colophon to a manuscript copied in June 1301 in the church of Mar Quriaqos in
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Arquivio Nacional torre do Tombo Lisbo:Nucleo Antigo N 875 contains a summary of letters from india written in 1525 and also the kings replay to it :Cf.OLIVERIA E COSTA, Portuguese, Apendice Documental
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praised the achievement of the Church of the East in converting "the Indians, Chinese and Turks". India was listed as one of the Church of the East's "provinces of the exterior" by the historian
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grew in his land (pp. 55, 91, 131), pepper being common in Malabar. Fifth, there are some stories in the letters concerning warriors riding elephants. It is well known that, unlike the
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Actually, the Hebrew text reads 'the unclean Thomas', because the Hebrew translator did not want to admit the holiness of one of the apostles, and therefore changed the title.
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bishop; the East Syriac liturgy of Addai and Mari was “purified from error”; and Latin vestments, rituals, and customs were introduced to replace the ancient traditions.
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of 1599. It was held in the All Saints Church there. The venue was apparently chosen on account of the place having been the capital of a Christian principality.
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Roz, Francisco, S.J. "Relação sobre a Serra. De erroribus Nestorianorum qui in hac India orientali versantur British Library, Add 9853, ff. 86 (525)–99 (539)".
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confirmed Yohannan Sulaqa as Chaldean Patriarch, the Pope said that the discipline and liturgy of the Chaldeans had already been approved by his predecessors,
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was sent), is mentioned in one of the letters. Thirdly, these facts would definitely suffice, but further evidence appears in the form of this statements:
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of India, cannot be confirmed, as evidence of both is only available from secondary sources. Later, a letter surfaced during the 1160s claiming to be from
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sought an ambassador for an important mission to Europe, Yaballaha recommended his former teacher Rabban Bar Sauma, who held the position of
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Tahrid ahlil iman 'ala jihadi' abdati sulban (Exhortation to the followers of the Faith to the holy war against the followers of the Cross)
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Rev. Georgius de Christo, Archidiaconus Christianorum S. Thomae, P. E. Mercuriano, praep. gen. S. I. Cocino 3 Ianuarii 1578
446:. Cranganore, described in this manuscript as "the royal city", was doubtless the metropolitan seat of India at this time. 1219:. Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana, vol. III/1. Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide. pp. 589–99. 250:), both the traditional (Nestorian) and Chaldean patriarchates intermittently attempted to regain their following in the 573: 189: 63: 1080:. Histoire nestorienne inédite: Chronique de Séert. (1908, 1910, 1911, 1919 ed.). pp. PO 4.3, 5.2, 7.2, 13.4. 290:
backed bishop. After that any attempts of Thomas Christians to contact bishops — even Chaldian Catholic ones — in the
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Jornada do Arcebispo de Goa Dom Frey Aleixo de Menezes Primaz da India Oriental, Religioso da Orden de S. Agostino
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came into existence and both traditionalist and Chaldean factions began sending their own bishops to Malabar.
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Reading the Hebrew letters of Prester John shows that Prester John lived in India; or to be more precise, in
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archdiocese of Goa. The east syriac bishop was then removed from jurisdiction in India and replaced by a
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The Church of the East was often separated from the other ancient churches due to its location in the
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In that same year, Francis Xavier also wrote to his Jesuit colleague and Provincial of Portugal, Fr.
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Yahballaha maintained contacts with the Byzantine Empire and with Latin Christendom. In 1287, when
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This is true proof and well-known knowledge about the Jews who are found there near Prester John.
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On the Christians of southern India that relate their beginning to St. Thomas, see: L. W. Brown,
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In May 1304, Yahballaha made profession of the Catholic faith in a letter addressed to Pope
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For Historical East Syriac ecclesiastical province of the Church of the East in India, see
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Latin vestments, rituals, and customs were introduced to replace the ancient traditions.
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Jornada of Dom Alexis de Menezes: A Portuguese Account of the Sixteenth Century Malabar
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Letter of Mar Thomas, Mar Yahballāhā, Mar Jacob and Mar Denḥā to Patriarch Mar Eliah V
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In the 1320s, the anonymous biographer of the patriarch Yahballaha III and his friend
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Relatio P. Francisci Dionysii S. I. De Christianis S. Thomae Cocini 4 Ianuarii 1578
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heretical, so Yahballaha is depicted wearing a jester's hat rather than a turban.
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Periplus Maris Erythraei: K. Müller. 1855/1965. Geographi Graeci minores, vol. 1
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which recognized Yahballaha as the patriarch of all the eastern Christians.
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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition
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Brevis notitia historica circa Ecclesiae Syro-Chaldaeo-Malabaricae statum
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in Portuguese), the capital of this kingdom, was the venue of the famous
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Informacion de los Christianos de S. Thomé. Manuscript preserved in Rome
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is dated to 52 AD by apocryphal sources and to the 9th century by the
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Synod of Diamper and suppression of East Syriac jurisdiction in India
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bishop of St Thomas Christians and placed them under the Portuguese
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Tuḥfat al-Mujāhidīn: A Historical Epic of the Sixteenth Century
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Marco Polo the Venetian, The Travels of: Trans. John Masefield
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supported the claim of the bishop from the Chaldean Church of
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Mar Ya'qob Metropolitan of India and Patriarch Yahballaha III
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Chronica do Felicissimo Rey Dom Emmanuel da gloriosa memoria
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A Latin text with its Hebrew translation reads as follows:
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wrote a letter dated 26 January 1549, from Cochin to king
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Mārggam Kaḷi Pāṭṭu (The Song of the Drama of the Way)
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