160 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX 
that the Christians of Mylapore would have it that their shrine 
and fair was not inferior to the most famous’ in the land. 
Mylapore six centuries later were still masters of the harbour, 
we conclude that it was they who remitted the customs on the 
occasion of the feast. 
But, where had Father Tachard heard or read about 
apparitions of St. Thomas on the day of his feast 2 No one in 
1710-11 could remember at Mylapore that anything like it had 
occurred. Had Father Tachard been asked questions about 
these apparitions by someone in Kurope? His letter was 
addressed to Father de Trevou. S J.. Confessor to His Royal 
‘Highness the Duke of Orleans. 
T had come thus far with this discussion, when a visit to 
the Indian Library of St. Mary’s College, Kurseong, put me in 
possession of a text whence Father Tachard might have had 
The Carmelite Friar, Father Vincenzo Maria de S. Catha 
S communicated those Christians, giving to the 
Faithful and well-disposed the Sacrament of the Altar, and 
denying it to those who were stained with some grievous 
fault. This suffices to show how they are privileged above 
every other nation, and how God and the Saint look down 
on them with special affection.” ! 
Ast nishing as was the information about St. Thomas 
;Pparitions, which at best sounded like a pious legend, it was 
for the moment quite superseded in my mind by the marvellous 
ag re a Patriarch of the Indies should have been in Rome 
in 1126. 
Before long, I received from Malabar two small English 

: We react told here that it was on the Saint’s feast. 
Pope Callistus IT. reigned from Febr,. Ist, 1119, to Dee. 13th, 1124. 
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