182 Journal of the Asiatic Sociely of Bengal. [N.S., XUX, 
It is a wholesome thing for all believers in Christ’s name 
ever to seek and hear something edifying | 2. 30] and to learn 
how admirable the Lord is in His Saints. Sriove ing that you 
are eager to hear such things, I wish to write to you, according 
to your recommendation and request, what I saw and heard 
at the Roman Court. 
‘This year, to wit, on the Friday after the solemnity of 
Our Lord’s "Ascension, I stood in the Lord Po ope’s presence to 
talk about our affairs, when lo! someone came to announce 
that the Bizante, or the Emperor of Constantinople’s, ambas- 
sadors were outside. The Lord Pope rejoiced at the arrival 
of so distinguished an embassy, and sent a Bishop in attend- 
ance on him to introduce them honourably and present them 
to him They came, saluted the universal Pope and most of 
the members of the Cou urt, and, in answer to the questions put 


ote (ibid, in Migne by Mabillon ?) says: ‘* This letter of Odo, 
Anbot of St. Remy’s at Rheims, was written about the year 1135: for 
the next year, ahs his return from Italy, he granted a eat a us til 
dum) for the ete the Carthusian house of Mons Dei. oo 
o whom 
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Codiciacum Cas 
Tam aunts iets to settle whether Document 2 was written by Odo, 
Abbot of St. Remy’s, or by Odilo, Abbot of Cluny. ad the Catholic En- 
cyclopedia, New York, I find only two Odilos or Odos of Cluny, and their 
dates do not tally with the story: St. Odo, second Abbot of Cluny (0. 
878 or 879; d. 18th Nov., 942), and St. Odo, fifth Abbot of Cluny (0. cirea 
y remark that our let tter does not mention aad Callixtus ot 
who had died in 1124, two years therefore before the date assigned to 
letter by Migne. Yet, it professes to have been written the very year 0 
arrival in Rome of the Indian Archbishop (see §1). If, seaates. 
e 
ought perhaps to argue, from the many discrepancies in Document 1, 
that there is question here of another Indian Prelate. But what of the 
mane points of igh as nce ? 
! One does not understand hel an Indian Archbishop should have 
come for advice to the Greek Em r after the loss of his prince, a tem- 
tians of Malabar seem to have had a S King of their own at the date in 
question—the Greek Emperor might have at most recommended to the 
