184 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
other things which he related about the position of the Church, 
its rich treasury, and the variety of its ornaments, there was 
one which one cannot hear without astonishment. The said 
Apostle’s Church is surrounded on all sides by a very deep 
river; ! but, for eight days before the feast and as many after 
it, the waters flow off and leave the river so dry that a seven 
year old child can cross it. On the very day of the feast, the 
chiefs of the whole province and all the clergy and people 
assemble; and, after many tears and deep sighs, the Arch- 
bishop with the clergy of his Order i aloe the bier (feretrum) 
of the blessed Apostle,’ takes from it very reverently i body, 
places it with honour on the pontifical. chair, and, prostrating 
himself the first at the feet of that powerful advocate, he 
honours him with his gift and oblation. The blessed Apostle 
raises his arm, opens his hand and receives gratefully whatever 
is offered him [P. 31] by all the followers of our faith. But, 
if a heretic mixed up in ‘the crowd tries, as if out of devotion, 
to place something in the Apostle’s ane he closes his hand 
and refuses to accept his sinful gifts. 
4. When the Lord Pope heard of this from some, he 
called for the Bishop and wished to forbid him under anathema 
to continue were oe such untruths in the palace.* Indeed, 
what he had said about the aes hic ine ie to be contrary 
the on could obtain from Almighty God even greater 
miracles 

. W. Germann, that diligent student of the St. Thomas 
her aaeee jong ago anticipated our disquisitions on John 
As his account contains some elements not discovered by us 
| A church is not — on all sides by a river sae it stands 
on an island in the river, Document I speaks of a lake. Anyhow, W 
are not told here about a mou aor sii a tower, and a church on the 
top of the tower. No mention either of the twelve encase in honour 
of ths twelve As sre 
um? Noe 
Ee Coen nion SDE no ST csctiee deaths of infidels. 
The Pops 5 is horribly scandalised at a much milder type of story 
than that of Document 
5 In some copies of the letter the Abbot seerns to continue (see our 
quotation from Raulin, supra): ‘* But, as we were not then at the Cou rt, 
n eA 
having. ees any of my readers ara it out? Does he mean that he 
was present at the arrival of the embassy, a had left by the time the 
Indian Ar shbhep started telling his stories? But does he not pr rofess 
cree to Count Thomas what he saw and heard i the Roman Court? 
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