152 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1913. 
It must be understood that, though we have pone 
Fr. G6mez Rodeles’ spon for the names of some of ou 
vernaculars, we have left others in the form ener by the 
early missionaries, in order to avoid worse confusi 
ny words or passages within [ ] are ours. 
H. Hosren, S8.J.]. 
GOA. _—When St. Francis Xavier landed at Goa on May 6, 
1542, he may be said to have taken possession of that town. 
Here, in course of time, and under the visible protection of 
God, the number of the Jesuits and the sphere of their civiliz- 
ing action went on increasin 
Goa was to become <a Jesuit seminary for the whole 
East, for it was here that young men fresh from Europe, and 
the sons of Europeans chosen by God in India as evangelical 
recruits, completed their sition and prepared shemasl vet for 
the apostolate. ? 
t was at Goa that the new missionaries took rest after 
their long and dangerous journey, that they learned one of the 
Sun, for the most part under the sway of paganism 
Goa, finally, gave shelter with due haae to those who 
had sacrificed their health and strength in unwholesome climes, 
until they either recovered their former vigour or were called 
away to receive in heaven the reward they had nore by 
their apostolic labours. 
In 1573, thirty years after the arrival at Goa of the 
Apostle of the Indies, that capital with its neighbourhood i 
a population of 90,000 Christians, 2,500 of whom had bee 
that very year regenerated i in the waters of ee ROE. 
s many as 500 children were taught in our Goa schools 
the rudiments of letters, the Christian Doctrine’ and Christian 
morality ; these together with a handred orphans were main- 
tained at the expense of the college. 
n the beginning of the year 1576, nearly the whole island 
of Goa was Christian, and, though the number of evangelical 
labourers in the East was rather small, yet there were at Goa 
“it Jesuits, mostly students perfecting themselves in virtue and 
earnin 
iv illy , that great city was the emporium of Portuguese 
trade i in India and the seat of the colonial Government. 
1 Mon menta Xaveriana, t. I, 250 sqq.; Fr. F. de ape 8.J., 
——  conguitado a Jesu “ee puts I, conq. I, div. I., “ag and 17. 
R. SAcoHint, S.J., H t. Soe. Jesu, p. Il lib. I,n 
By Christian Doctems. nse stand throughout the Caiechism ] 
Annu, 1573 and 1574. [Pyrard de Laval speaks of 2000- 
vaste in 1610, all educated gratis. | 
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