77 A. 
is 
Paes 
1923.) St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 187 
ina century and a half? Legend has enriched it correctly in 
only one point: the position of the mountain outside the 
town, the Church on the mountain, and the fact that the water 
which flows around always rises or falls according to the mon- 
soon.’ That an Eastern Prelate came first to Constantinople 
was not an Indian,’ but rather some adventurer Bishop of 
Mesopotamia. Even John de Hese’s Itinerary, of the 15th 
century,* which takes from our account the whole Communion 
scene, knows that the town Hulna with the body of the Apostle 
is turned towards Edessa, from which it is a four days’ fourney 
distant § 
“We have entered upon the period of the Crusades, during 
which legend and poetry, which had borrowed from the Indian 
Church the materials for the story of Barlaam and Josaphat, 
Doubtful as we are about Mar John’s character and the 
' These details, which give us no little trouble, Germann accepts 
therefore as genuine Indian touches, but as later additions. How could 
they have been added correctly later ? 
* 0 not know to what other visit and oath Germann alludes. Per- 
haps to the Bishop of Gabala’s visit to Rome in 1145. Cf. Encycl. Bri- 
fann., 9th ed., XIX, p. 714, col 
3 
ol. 1. 
ere Ww on to Germann, 
further opinion that the relics were not at Mylapore, but at 
$ &s : 2 
: t ina.... (K. 
1901, p. 1181, refer to Johannes de Hese’s Itinerarius, printed Da- 
