1923.] St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 193 
from an Armenian general Ivane (John), who in 1124 gained 
a great victory over the Crescent. 
It is not impossible that one of the erin Pe Johns, 
nae personages though they be, had a dau r Clara who 
a Nun, nay a Dominioss Nun.! In this saan the Friars 
“seat hee may have had at their disposal materials not now 
accessible to us. The difficulty is about the time and the 
place and the large number of convents said to have gone 
under Clara’s name. Waiving that point, howevel? —for it is 
not impossible that convents of Malabar Nuns, or of Georgian, 
Armenian, or Ethiopian Nuns, not to speak of nunneries in 
Tibet and other Buddhist countries, should have been mistaken 
for convents of Dominican Nuns—may we not suppose that, 
as at least one Prester shed places in his sadist the tomb 
of St. Thomas, our Dominican Razzius or some other earlier 
writer of his Order. identifying Mylapore with Calamina, as 
has been done so often, made of Clara, the daughter of the 
King of Calamina? We need hardly add that Mylapore (alias 
Calamina) never possessed a Dominican nunner ay be 
worth stating, however, that, as St. Dominic was born aay in 
-D. 1170, our Mar John III. cannot have had anything to do 
with a stor 
It tooka ae time to kill Prester John of India. In 1177, 
Pope Alexander IT. , Writing possibly to the Negus of Ethio- 
pia, begins thus: “ Alexander Bishop [or Pope], servant of the 
Servants of God, to his very dear son in Christ, John, pat illus- 
trious and magnificent King of the Indians.”* The Annals of 
Admont —— speak of ‘* Prester John, King of beter and 
In ndia” under the year 114). Matthew Paris reports the 
predominant in ‘ India, the Kingdom of Prester John,’ and siks 
! This would not have been so very foolish, if the — Christians 
had, as they seem to have had, a Christian King of their 0 Of. T. K. 
h, A ‘Malabor Christian Dynasty in the ieteahdrane: ‘Doily News, 
922. 
Diogo do ont Feta Asia, Dec. XII, Bk. HI, ch. 5) thinks that 
Thomas Cana whom he places ab at A.D . 811 (but whom the 
Malabar sinuses “place in about the year 345) might have n ‘* the 
Kinglet of whom St. A toninus writes in his history that he sent epi! 
year a present of pepper to the Sovereign Pontiff, at that time 
the tomb of the Holy | Apostle w frequented by the Christians of 
canted and Thom ananeo would e sent hi = n ~~ 
= Surprising reference! Pepper wou 
from Malabar Count . ur readers lay hands on the text in St. An- 
Pere an term he hen this took place? Evident ly St. 
t tim : 
ard means that Christians from Europe came in pilgrimage to the 
Pa of St. Thomas at Mylapor 
2 Encycl. Britann., 9th ed., “SIX (1885), - 715. 
> Cath. Encycl., New York, XII. 400 
