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the Patriarch; Fr. John Gualdames, three Brothers of the 
Society, and some young men who were soliciting admission 
into it. One of the Brothers was Juan de Bustamante just 
mentioned, who knew the art of printing. 
King D. Joao III, the royal family, and other friends had 
been munificent towards the members of the expedition. The 
King adjoined to the Patriarch an Indian of good character, an 
able and experienced printer, to help Brother Bustamante, who 
was taking with him a printing-press to Goa. An eye-witness 
gives us this information. ! 
n reaching Goa on September 6 of the same year 1556, 
the press was set to work without delay; for, according toa 
letter of the Patriarch written to Fr. Louis Gonzélez de Camara 
and dated Goa, November 6 of the same year, the Brothers 
studying Philosophy had had a public disputation, and the 
Theses, or propositions to be defended, had been printed, besides 
other things, by Brother Juan. He was performing his office 
well, and they expected he would make further progress. 
At the time the Patriarch wrote this letter, there was 
question of printing the Catechism of St. Francis Xavier, a 
work from which all expected great advantage for the Ethiopian 
Mission.” 
One of the books published by Brother Bustamante in 1560, 
was a treatise in Portuguese, in which Fr. Gonzalo Rodriguez, 
basing himself on the Councils and the Holy Fathers. estab- 
great number of copies of the same, and this cannot be done 
easily unless we print them, we beg of Your Most Illustrious 
1 Rerum Aithiopic. Script., vol. X, pp- 53-61. Letter of Fr. Gaspa 
Calaza to St. Ignatius. Lisbon, Apri! 30, 1556. : 
2 Ibid., pp. 62-67 , in Portuguese, Goa, 
November 6, 1556 ; another of Fr. Andrew de Oviedo, also in Portuguese, 
Goa, November 7, 1556. [The Theses were defended by Francisco Cabral 
and Manoel Teixeira and presided over by Fr. Antonio de Quadros. Cf. 
noo, ron. S.J., tome VI, pp- 783-784. The Patriarch wrote : 
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8 Fr. Gonzalo Rodrigues: born at Calleiros P-iseige me in 1527; 
went to the Indies in 1551; was a missionary at Goa, Ormuz an 
Ethiopia; died at Goa on March 5, 1564. Cf. Fr. SoMMERVOGEL, 
Bibliotheque de la Comp. de Jésus, t. VI, col., 1968. 
