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[N.S.] 
assisted by the priests educated in the ‘hearted confuted the 
errors of paganism, while the knowledge, lov ~~ practice of 
the true faith spread among the new Christia 
ad been Brother Juan reteoet cima to ne 
works in that eneue were sitntedl especially at Rachol, as we 
shall dpe see.® 
HOL.--PotyeLor Printinc.—A man who deserved 
well or ve vedeed oon communities in- ‘dia was the English Fr. 
Thomas Steph He was born in 1549 in the diocese of 
Salisbury ce was ike first English Seauit to work as a mission- 
ary in India. 
t 
published at Goa and Rachol. He died at Goa in 1619, aged 
seventy years, forty-four of which he had passed in the Society 
and yee Bae as a Missioner in Salsete.* 
t Rachol, near [within] the Bi ang fort, a printing- 
se was working in St. Ignatius’ College from 161 6 at the 
latest to 1668. It published books in Pieagene, Kanarese , 
Malabar, and Syriac 
H are some ‘of the: ones productions of Rachol, as 
given by Fr. Sommervoge 
‘¢ A discourse on the coming into the world of our Saviour 
Jesus Christ. Divided into two treatises. At Rachol, in the 
Gulleze of the Society of Jesus, 1616. e 
: FR. DE Sousa, tbid., pt. II, ¢ conq. I, div. 1, 1 nos, 93, 106. 
e Sousa agers A length of the diffiéulties special to Kanarese 
Soin Ibid., p. 64. [The reference is wrong. It might be 7bid., 
3 [Can it be proved that the Jesuit press issued Kanarese or Konkan 
ks in the native character before the middle of the XVIIth mines 
ater ? 
ee - ae is a ioned among other authors by Fr. Parricnani, Meno. 
rn December 15; Fr. DE GUILHERMY, Ménologe, Assist. de Germanic, 
2e série, 2¢ partie, Sept. 19: Fr. SommERVOGEL, Bibliotheque, cols. 
469. 
: Fr. Saccaint, Hist. Soc. Jesu, p. IV, 1. V, n. 180. 
bre a vindade Jesus Christo, nosso Salvador ,20 mundo, 
dividide en dous tratados. Em Rachol, no Collegio da Companhia de Jesus 
anno de 16 ge Cf. Sommervocen, Biblioth., t. Il, co , art. ‘* Bus- 
ten”; Id. tionn. des ouvrages Anon., col. ‘an. a ‘is phigior ee un- 
likely ‘that a poem of 11,018 saciies of four verses each—should 
