

47- List of Jesuit Missionaries in "Mogot" (1580—1803) 



By Rev. H. Hosten, S.J. 



This list contains the names of the Jesuit Missionaries in 

 North India as found in the Catalogues of the Province of Goa 

 preserved among our Archives in Europe. It was kindly for- 

 warded to the writer by the late Fr. . J. B. Van Meurs, S.J., 

 and cannot but render great service in all questions connected 

 with the history of our North India Missions. Many of our 

 Catalogues having been lost in troublous times, our list is not 

 exhaustive, nor is it our intention, at present, to fill in the 

 many gaps or to discuss the moot-points involved. This is 

 a task from which other occupations may keep us for long 

 debarred. 



Let it be borne in mind that our Catalogues are not always 

 an infallible guide. They represent the missionary personnel at 

 a given period, a status with which stress of circumstances 

 might interfere even before it came into operation, or soon after. 

 Such as it is, this list will work as a ready means of checking 

 numerous historical data. 



Fr. J. B. Van Meurs' notes do not go back to the very 

 origin of the " Mogor " Mission, but only "to 1593. It is well 

 known that the first Mission to Akbar (1580—83) consisted of 

 Bl. Rudolph Aquaviva, Fr. Anthony Monserrat and Fr. Francis 

 Henriquez. The second (1590-91) was composed of Frs. Christo- 

 pher de Vega, Edward Leitao, and a Companion, perhaps Fr. 

 Francis Cabral, "not yet in priest's orders." The third 

 ssion, according to our Catalogues, would date from 1593 ; 

 but, Mr. E. D. Maclagan (Jonm.As. Soc. Bengal, 1896, p. 64) 

 shows that it left Goa only on December 3 3 1594. 



We have refrained from interfering with the orthography 

 of the proper names in the original. We simply insert in [ ] 

 the more likely forms. As for the biographical data inserted 

 here and there, they are mostly from the pen of Fr. Van Meurs 

 and supplement or modify what we wrote in Jesuit Missionaries 

 in Northern India and Inscriptions oil their Tombs , Agra (1580 

 1803), Catholic Orphan Press, Portuguese Church Street, Cal- 

 cutta, 1907. 



* 

 * * 



1593. — They are three in the Mission, Father [Jerome] Xavier, 

 Father [Emmanuel] Pinheyro [Pinheiro] and Brother 

 [Benedict] Goes, who is in charge of the house. 



