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APPENDIX E
[Jahangir] and his army; another resides at Agra, the capital,
with a great part of the Christians. The other three are [at
Sambhar] near Prince Mirza Zulcarne, the father, pillar and
mainstay of this Christianity. All have had ample occasion to
labour for Christ, one excepted, who for reason of illness was sent
back to India....
The Christians who live under Prince Mirza [Zu'lkarnain]
make daily marvellous progress in holiness and virtue. The
Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, instituted last year at his request,
goes on better and better. The members of it are already every
month approaching the Sacraments of Confession and Holy
Communion, whereas formerly they did so only once a year.
Their example provokes among the rest of the Christians a greater
frequentation of the Holy Sacraments. Foremost in all works of
piety is the good Prince Mirza. Not only does he by his edifying
example incite all his people to every kind of good work, but he
assists them liberally and lavishly with frequent and copious
alms....
But our Fathers are not the only recipients of the liberality of
this Christian Prince. He extends it to the rest of the Christians,
and even to the poor Gentoos [Hindus]....
At this time a great scarcity and penury of food was harassing
the Gentoos1. For the last five years the rains had failed. The
sky had seemed of brass. A great number of people flocked to
the city of our Mirza, and the good Prince, moved with pity,
ordered a rich Gentoo to distribute daily to his people a sufficient
quantity of food, with which he would regularly supply him____In
a word, Prince Mirza is among these Mogorese [people of
Hindustan] another apostle, a second St Paul, who becomes
omnibus omnia, itt omnes Chrislo lucrifaciat (all things to all men,
that he may win all to Christ). Kind to all, the pillar of this
Christianity, the only refuge of all the afflicted, he not only
procures to all the bodily assistance they may want, but ministers
with even greater success to their souls....
Last June, one of our priests was sent to Goa in order to
negotiate with the Superiors the foundation of a College of the
1 Tiiis apparently refers to some local scarcity of food in the Sambhar
district in 1620. There is no other mention of it, so far as I know. The
great famine in the West of India occurred in 16^0. See Appendix A.
[R. C. T.]
APPENDIX E
[Jahangir] and his army; another resides at Agra, the capital,
with a great part of the Christians. The other three are [at
Sambhar] near Prince Mirza Zulcarne, the father, pillar and
mainstay of this Christianity. All have had ample occasion to
labour for Christ, one excepted, who for reason of illness was sent
back to India....
The Christians who live under Prince Mirza [Zu'lkarnain]
make daily marvellous progress in holiness and virtue. The
Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, instituted last year at his request,
goes on better and better. The members of it are already every
month approaching the Sacraments of Confession and Holy
Communion, whereas formerly they did so only once a year.
Their example provokes among the rest of the Christians a greater
frequentation of the Holy Sacraments. Foremost in all works of
piety is the good Prince Mirza. Not only does he by his edifying
example incite all his people to every kind of good work, but he
assists them liberally and lavishly with frequent and copious
alms....
But our Fathers are not the only recipients of the liberality of
this Christian Prince. He extends it to the rest of the Christians,
and even to the poor Gentoos [Hindus]....
At this time a great scarcity and penury of food was harassing
the Gentoos1. For the last five years the rains had failed. The
sky had seemed of brass. A great number of people flocked to
the city of our Mirza, and the good Prince, moved with pity,
ordered a rich Gentoo to distribute daily to his people a sufficient
quantity of food, with which he would regularly supply him____In
a word, Prince Mirza is among these Mogorese [people of
Hindustan] another apostle, a second St Paul, who becomes
omnibus omnia, itt omnes Chrislo lucrifaciat (all things to all men,
that he may win all to Christ). Kind to all, the pillar of this
Christianity, the only refuge of all the afflicted, he not only
procures to all the bodily assistance they may want, but ministers
with even greater success to their souls....
Last June, one of our priests was sent to Goa in order to
negotiate with the Superiors the foundation of a College of the
1 Tiiis apparently refers to some local scarcity of food in the Sambhar
district in 1620. There is no other mention of it, so far as I know. The
great famine in the West of India occurred in 16^0. See Appendix A.
[R. C. T.]