186 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
Gospels. Thus far Oddo whose letter bears no date, but must 
ave been written before 1136, since he returned to France 
that year.! 
‘“The year is mentioned by Alberic. It was the fourth of 
Pope Calixtus, therefore 1122. Alberic has, besides, a number 
of additional details. He knows the Indian’s name, John; he 
gives him the rank of Patriarch, and makes him come to Con- 
stantinople to receive the pallium; he says that, as he had 
come from furthest India (quae ultima finem facit) he had spent 
a full year on the way. Calixtus had sent envoys to Constan- 
tinople, with whom the Patriarch conversed through a drago- 
man, and, when he learned that Rome was the chief town 
of the whole earth, he travelled thither with the interpreter ° 
and gave to the Pope and the Cardinals the following informa- 
tion :— 
rounded on all sides by a deep lake; on the summit of the 
mountain stood the Mother-Church of St. Thomas. Round 
the lake were the monasteries of the twelve Apostles. During 
the year, the mountain was not accessible to any one; but. 
upright, as if alive. Before it burned continually a golden 
lamp; this was always found to be full of balsam, which, when 
divided among the faithful, worked numerous cures. On the 
feastday, the Patriarch with the Bishops lowered the concha 
containing the body, which had still all its former shape, 8° 
that even the clothes were intact, and he placed it before the 
altar on a golden seat. After the Mass, the hosts were pre- 
sented to the Apostle, who received them in his outstretched 
right hand, and the faithful approached one by one to recelve 
them from his hand. Moreover, when an infidel or a heretic 
or one stained with sins approached, the hand closed in sight 
4 - e€ person concerned either repented at once, OF 
died. 
‘With what doubts was the story of the Indian Arch- 
bishop first received at Rome, and what has legend added to it 

! This reflection is to be found in our notes to Document 2 above- 
2 Some of these details, e.g., about the interpreter, are new for us- 
