166 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
gins : ‘* Dilecto suo frater O. salutem in Domino. Salutare 
est,’ where Brother O. appears without any qualifications. 
Document I. 
[P. 182.] The Miracles of St. Thomas the A postle. 
The Patriarch! of the country of the Indians, travelling for 
a year with oars and sails, came to Home to pray.” Ques- 
tioned by the Sovereign Pontiff about St. Thomas and his 
miracles, he related before the whole Hi aa senate the follow- 
ing, according as he knew it to be 
' The reader will remark that the Bis ee name, John III., rose 
not occur in the two texts we translate from the Bollandists. The 
‘ patriarch’ may have become extensively used by the Nestorians ae this 
time, as among the Armenians. (A. Fortescue, The lesser Hastern 
Churches, pp. 405, 430). 
Bishop John de’ vin ae mentions a ‘ Patriarch of St. Thomas’ in 
the account of his travels in the East (1339-53), which is found in his 
- - l 
: he 3 s to 
with leavened or unleavened bread, he was told b the "patriarch of St 
ee € 2ae), according to their clear and fem 
i e 
their Patriarch in the Ountry of the Euphrates, whic Marignola also 
visi ven in thi ca the question whether the Thomas 
Christians of India had Bishops in Marignola’s time must ered 
decidedly in the affir e: for surely, if Marignola c m he 
Patriarch of the Thomas hristians, the latter would also have maintai 
relaticns with his Christian communities, if he did not ally a 
himself among them ; indeed, 
na, 
nd also Nestorian 
rmann, Die Kirche der Thamwasele sities 
p. 218, from whom w is te the — without knowing how much of 
text is in de’ ] Marignolli s works 
© passage quoted is not in sche extracts (Cf. Cathay) from de’ 
legs ee § account of the East. He must have overlooked it 
de’ Marignolli might have sated the I Patriarch of St. a hanses at Myla- 
pore, where he was four da ays (13497). He des ja 
‘‘of which St. Thomas had nate PS and the vinery planted by 
St. Thomas, from which the priests obtai infra). 
salt abe Patriare: cha regionis Indorum ota mine. oe 8 in ponte 
Romam vectus adveni img sen 
is ue would mean that, though he Sinaia a all 
speed, without implying that he came by sea, yet his journey had lasted 
a whole But we have remis et velo, which does not lend itself so 
e 
A jean if we may trust H. K. Mann and of ee 
ni ‘8 causa might mean that he came to pray at hs Apostles! 
tomb; but our aoe _Socumens says he came for advice, and u 
strange circumstance: 
