Vol. 1X, No. 4.] Harliest Jesuit Printing in India. - 157 
[NV.S.] : 
Fr. Manoel de Almeida in his Historia Ethopie is full of 
praise for Fr. Antonio Fernandez, and gives an account of the 
books which he wrote. It is through this author that we know 
that Urban VIII sent from Rome to the Patriarch Fr. Alfonso 
Méndez, the Abyssinian or ihaldesn type used for printing 
Tene Whip against falsehoods.’’ 
The services rendered by We Ethiopic press extended to 
the Mission of Angola. From 1617, Fr. Francisco Pazconio, a 
native of Capua, worked for many vears in this impor‘ ant and 
difficult enterprise. He wrote two Catechisms in Fithionio, and 
returning to Portugal died at Lisbon on November 16, 1641. 
GOA.—Booxs 1n Kox SKanI.—To the west of India, nice 
the coast, lies a country called Koakan, with a language of its 
own. Among the missionaries who cultivated this vineyard, 
was Fr. Michael de Almeida, born at Gouvea (Portugal) in 
1607, and received in 1623 into the Society at Goa, where he 
became Rector and later Provincial. According to some, he 
"The ame year 1658, he sent also to the Goa press the 
uciaces of the Konkani language composed by Fr. Diego 
Ribeiro and enlarged by himself, as also five discourses on the 
versicle Hxurgens Maria.? 
Fr. Diego Ribeiro, for fifty years a aii in Salsete, 
died at Goa in 1635. He translated i o Konkani era Flos 
Sanctorum of Fr. Ribadeneira and had it arene: at 
Many other books, also in Konkani, issued from the Rachol 
press, as we shall see presently. 
304.—“ Bramana.’’-—Fr. Sommervogel fase out the 
ey 
For the complete ves of the Sain, rd ko aornaage cf. . Riv. 
Corrections ap dditions a la Bibl. de la C. de J., Bs nie 8 (Toalouse, 1 1913) 
poke : ‘este sat que o Padre oni 
sae Mee Mendes peli iopia na sy Sg della, aqui em Goa 
i f Goa, Sept. 30, 1 
ney Bk ay Mate ahi Reru : Se Liopi- pel vol. VII, 
r. Fernandez 
Bk. Sh of 
pp. 472-477. Fr. ‘Almeida sate the author refuted by 
; £40; SommERVOGEL, t. VI, c 
spi PP. 2895 ie cols. 188, 189. “At the foot a as title-page : 
be Gon, typis Collegii Societatis Jesu, 1658. 
4 Ibid., t. VI, col. 1 
