158 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
to refer ; besides, the sweating happened generally on the 18th 
of December, 3 days before the Saint's feast, and that with 
intervals of years. 
Mylapore was the place which the pilgrim Theodore 
590 
visited before A.D. 59 and we may think it was) equally 
“The Apostle Thomas, according to the story of his pas- 
sion, is said to have suffered in India. i 
neither is it extinguished by 
accidentally, or diminish in 
spite of its burning. And, through the power of the Apostle 
though a mystery to man, is known 
This, Theodore, who went to that 
s place, a great concourse of people, who come 
from divers countries for vows and trade, and during thirty 
1 Lignus in Mgr. Medly 
2 Scirpus: rus ; bulrus 
1517, a Muhammadan took care of the lamp which was always 
kept burning before the tomb of Mylapore. We know how particular 
rn rites 
Cott, op. cit., p. 80 n., represents lychnus. 
h. 
ped - > are buried,’ if he thought that the greater part was 
still In the origi al al d been baricd? since St. 
3 ssa ;yet, we 
that the ‘above said town’ was, not 
is notes on this chapter of St. Gregory of 
, Says: ‘* Deest hoc caput in Colb. tut. et seme! cum 2 seqq. in Clar. 
a. Inaliis MSS. caput hoe in duo dividitur : alterius titulus est: De virtute 
SOT ESE See re aa. 
