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the Porfi(2;tie'>e p:overnmrnt, continued to govern 

 his flock after tlie tenets ol" Nestorius, and to pre- 

 vent rnther than to promote a re-i.-nion witli the Ro- 

 man Cath'.Iics: so that a new order for hiis impri- 

 sonment was issued in tlie year Ir.uJ. He was a se- 

 cond time transported, first to Pcrtufral. and after- 

 wards to Home, ul,ere he hkt'uise contrived to muke 

 his peace with tliC Pope: but before he could under- 

 take anew voyage to India, iie died Sit Rome, on the 

 eve of being macle a cardin d 



Mar Abrajiam had in the mean time arrived at 

 Goa, with new authority, and with brevets from the 

 Pope; but tiie famous Arcbbisliop De Menezes, on 

 examining them, pretended tliat Mar Abraham liad 

 deceived liis hohness, anri took upon himselt to ( on- 

 fine hi n in a convent, from which, liowever, he soon 

 found n)eans to make his escape, and to reach ^72- 

 gamalte over land, Aviicrt^ he was received with un- 

 common exultation by all the -SV. Thomk, Chri>itlans ; 

 and frv)m dire experience he learned to take now such 

 precautions that he put it out of the power of the 

 Viceroy to get a third time hold of his person ; and, 

 after some fruitless attenipts, he was effectually left 

 in quiet possession of his see till his death : but at 

 the same time the most vigorous measures were taken 

 by the Por/z^fi'we.9e government, that no Syrian priest 

 might in future find his way to the Malnhar Chris- 

 tians. As they were then masters of Ormtiz, and 

 the ^>.hoIe navigation on this side India, it is not sur- 

 prising that they succeeded in pre\enting all inter- 

 course between the Nestorian Patriarch at Bahiilon 

 and the St. Tho.ne Christians at Angamake. 'I hgy 

 stand even accused of having drowned 3. new Syrian 

 Bishop in the year I6"44 in the road of Cochin. Re- 

 peated orders were also sent from Rome, not to allow, 

 after Mar Abraham's death, that another Arch- 

 bishop if Syrian extraction should be nominated: 

 3V'i vR Ab;<aham died about the year 1507, in a very 

 advanced age, professing to the last moment of his 



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