1923. ] St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 161 
studies on St. Thomas and the orthodoxy of the St. Thomas 
Christians, in which further references to the travels of John 
were contained.! His visit to Rome was there set down in the 
year 1122, which falls correctly in the reign of Callistus 11. 
Our Uniate priests in Malabar had not been slow in availing 
themselves of the information to show that, if John went to 
Rome to receive the pallium, he could not have been a 
Nestorian, but was in communion with Rome. 
The e€ question of his orthodoxy ought to stand over till we 
have satisfied ourselves about his. identity and veracity. Let 
us quote first some of the authorities which we have secured. 
To say nes ie st they are extremély extravagant 
one . Horace K. Mann writes :-— 
rok Re tap century chronicle,? while giving an account 
more or less mythical of one ‘ John. patriarch of the Indies,’ 
furnishes a ——- addition to our knowledge of this attempt 
at reunion Professing to quote from the ‘records of Ca- 
lixtus,’ its i relates that in the fourth vear of that 
Pope there arrived at Constantinople, after a journey of a 
whole year, the patriarch of that part of India which forms 
the end of the world (1122 e ha d come, we are told, oe 
the city whence he had come was Ulna (or Ultima, according 
to another ee ‘the ee and a city of the whole 
Therefore. sinha: the year 1126 or the name of the Pope given ‘above is = 
f ned Honorius II. . 15th, 1124-Febr. 
13th, 1130), and Innocent IT. (Febr. [4th, ace 24th, 1143). 
ather Samiel, A conclusive proof of th 
ence to the true faith, revised and pias fesiven ‘fro 
printed and published at the ‘Union Press,’ Cochin a 
quoting Le Quien, II, 1275, and a long pide of other nanos s taken from 
aulin. Father Samiel died since. His pamphlet was sent to me by an 
anonymous friend. 
ae Lys Joseph C. Fanjikaren M.A., The Syrian Church in Mala- 

A historical dissert tted for bes Master of Arts Degree of the 
Usteoeiey of. Mads peste with a few iti richinopoly, 
printed by Rev. Bro. Joseph, S J., Supt.. St gore sansa School 
Press, 1914, p. 66. p. 33, quoting Lives 
of the Popes in the Ages. London, Vol. vtitt (1910... te 219-220, 
and 9a to Le Quist: i, 1276-1277. 
ee hav ; this ws work of Alberic. a monk of the Cis- 
tercian Abiee Be Side Fontaines the diocese of Chaions-sur-Marne, as 
ot Le mo hoe Moasier (Huy). Alberic died after 
3 At th Ci f Lateran in 1123? 
oun : e to receive the pallium, if his going to Rome was 
+ Fro: 
like an atenthouckt ? 
