218 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
Palestine] is the Foss of Mennon that is all round; and it is 
100 Cubits of Largeness, and it is all full of Gravel shining 
bright, of the which Men make fair and clear Verres (or 
Crystal Glasses). And Men come from far, by Water in Ships, 
and by Land with Carts, to fetch of that Gravel. And though 
there be never so much taken away thereof in the Day, at the 
Morrow it is as full again as ever it was; and that is a great 
Marvel...” Ch. 5, p. 42 of Constable’s edition, 1895. 
P. 176. 7. Swearing by the hand of St. Thomas.—The 
passage reads thus in John de Mandeville’s archaic English 
(Ch. 16. Of the Domes made by seynt Thomas...): ‘‘ From 
that Contree men passen by many Marches toward a Contree, 
a 10 journeyes thens, that is clept Mabaron; and it is a gret 
Kyngdom, and it hath many faire Cytees and Townes In 
that Kingdom lithe the body of seynt Thomas the Apostle, in 
Flesche and Bon, ina faire Tombe in [P. 172] the Cytee of 
Calamye: for there he was martyred and buryed. And men 
of Assirie beeren his Bodye in to Mesopotayme, in to the 
Cytee of Edisse, and aftre, he was brought thidre azen. An 
the Arm and the Hond, (that he putte in oure Lordes syde, 
whan he appered to him, aftre his Resurrexioun, and seyde to 
him, Noli esse incredulus, set! fidelis is zit lyggynge in a vessel 
with outen the Tombe. And be that Hond thei maken alle 
of him meyntenethe his Cause. and seyth, that his Cause is 
partyes writen here Causes in 2 Billes, and putten hem in the 
Hond of seynt Thomas; and anon he castethe away the Bille 
of the wrong Cause and holdethe stille the Bille with the righte 
Cause. And therefore men comen from fer Contrees to have 
Juggement of doutable [P. 173| Causes; and other Juggement 
usen thei non there. Also the Chirche, where seynt Thomas 
lythe is bothe gret and fair, and alle fulle of grete Simulacres : 
and tho ben grete Ymages, that thei clepen here Goddes ; of the 
whiche, the leste is als gret as 2 men.” Cf. The Voiage and 
Travaile of Sir John de Maundeville, Kt... ..Reprinted from 
the edition of A.D. 1725... by J.O. Halliwell.... London, ..-- 
M. DCCC. LXVI, pp. 171-173. 
On January 30, 1923, as my diary testifies, I related 
this very story of St. Thomas’ hand to the Bishop of Macao, 
who had arrived from Cochin the day before, after his visit to 
the Exposition of St. Francis Xavier’s body at Goa, and who 
was about to leave us the next day for Macao. Much surprised, 
the Bishop remarked that, at the Catholic Syrian Church at 
Aleppey, he had noticed a hand holding a cross issuing from the 
pulpit. It was my turn to be surprised. The Bishop had 
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