Vol. IX, No. 4.] Harliest Jesuit Printing in India. 167 
[N.S.] 
He studied in Rome with extraordinary success Hebrew, 
Greek, Latin and Portuguese, ree Italian, hoping all along 
to be selected for the Indian Mission 
ile in Madura, he applied himself with advantage to 
ot Telenga [Telugu], and especially Tamil. After five 
years he had thoroughly us ere pare a. and poetry. 
He pant the next twenty eadin e chief books in 
that language. The =e of Tritchirapalli rTvichinopoli made 
him his Prime Minister.! This remarkable po olyglot died at 
Manapad about 1746, leaving after him, edited or in manu- 
script, a great number of works in prose or in verse. 
esides Fathers Busten [Stephens] <3 Beschi, there were 
in India other European Missionaries who clothed the sublimity 
of their religious and moral teaching in aie: attractive garb of 
poetry and the grace of sonorous rhythmical cadence, thus stir- 
ring up not only the intellect, but the will and the imagination 
of their neophytes. The Life of Our Lady composed in Tamil 
verse by Fr. eed de Nobili was sung in many places by all 
classes of the peo 
We shall not even try to mention the many countries of 
India won over to the Catholic Church by the ean 
during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, with which we a 
chiefly concerned, nor the excellent fruits of holiness which 
Christian India produced, thanks to the colby of the Gospel, 
assisted by the printing-presses created by 
The eloquent testimony which w fie in oe first History 
of the Jesuit Missions in India, Bthiopia and Japan, written in 
Portuguese, apparently by Fr. Manoel Teixeira, is worth many 
others. In the second part. chapter VIII, this eye-witness of 
the events says: 
‘* The Father Patriarch, Joio Nufiez, Fr. Francisco 
y 
guese and the [native] Christians were by its means “pt 
Conscience by Beker stores 
om that time to this very day it is in everybody’s 
bests in Tadia: to the great advantage of the faithful and of 
confessors. As a rule, all know how to make a good confession. 
1 [This is generally recognized as merely a native legend. Cf. 
BerrranD, 8.J., La Mission du Maduré d’aprés des documents ie 
EN VINSON, 
Philol. comparée, Paris, Vol. XX XIX, pp. 123-146; Vol. XL, pp. 1 1-45. 
Prof. Vinson throws doubts on Beschi’s knowledge of Te lugu.] 
