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The church ee Nagori, however, bears the date 1664, and 
is dedicated to St. Nicola da Tolentino, ' the patron saint of the 
Augustine order 
uring the seventeenth century the success of the August- 
ine monks was most extraordinary. In 1602, three years 
after its foundation, the Hughli mission. consisted of over 500 
persons, among whom were ma ny ‘* grands seigneurs.”’ and by 
the end of the century the cooannant was administered to 
10,000 converts. 
The parochial church of Dacca, dedicated ‘‘a la Assump- 
cion de nuestra Senora’’ was at Tezgaon on the north of the 
city, and its graveyard still contains the oldest tombstones 
and epitaphs in Eastern Bengal.” The early history of the 
mission is very interesting. Its success was chiefly owing to 
the conversion of a member of a distinguished Hindu family. 
The son of the Zamindar of Bosnah,’ one of the twelve 

there the remnants of the Christians of Don Antonio de Rozario, the con- 
verted son of the Raja of Busna ( vide infra ). This settlement, accor- 
ding to the same Next akaae took place in 1695, sa i the date Maar MY 
Dr. Wise in his ragraph for the foutidatio of the Nagori Chu 
viz. 1664, agrees ceri that quoted "hy vit Bosten from the yasricten a 
Archid. de he for age : pp. 193--194 ): é his notes on Archdeacon Fir- 
minger’s translati ére B cuted atte of 1723 (Bengal: a and 
Present, 1910, p: 293). Bho agori’ may be the village of angers r to 
Nagori; and the eae oe a ae Brahm rae is presumbly a ileress 
to ee Antonio who d to this Sige E.S. ] 
cola da To ner died A 1308, and was canonized by e 
eyelical iste of Pope Eugenius Wei n 1446. [The Nagori Church was 
appar the ‘ bye oo ae ch’ of the echohcen Migeiey 2 by Bishop 
Laynez in nthe spring of 1714, on his return towards a from Ranga- 
i es m) and Husainpur (Mymensiagh) 3 ed oe oe 1914, pp. 
E. 
2 [Accor rdin ng to the marae da Archid. de Goa for 1897) (quoted 
Father Hosten on p. 23 of his notes on Pére Barbier’s letter mova 
referred to) the church of ie sa aati from 1714. The earliest monum 
tal inseription noticed by me in the chur ppg the 3 1913, w: ab cuted 
1725. As noted by the late Father Altenhofen, Dr Wise here dcin figs ses two 
churches. The original parochial church in Dacca was dein ae ii Our 
Lady’s Ass Shinn than: that at Tezgaon to Our r Lady of the Rosa The 
present Portuguese chur ‘ch in on a (which was only built in 1815) bears 
i. E.§.] 
te Don Antes del Rosario, CB del Rey de Busna, 
a ele no pace he Brctees ea nostros religiosos sinoque le redimio del 
pba kara el BF ae Manuel del Rosario, ie 24. ‘* Christiandad del 
Japan.” Su El P. M. Fr. Joseph Sicardo, En Madrid 1698 fol. 
[For full ave of this convert of Busna (N.W. Faridpur) c/. Josson, 
op. cit., pp. 375-381 and Hosten in the Catholic Herald of India—weekly 
7. i is Hindu name is 
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time over 30,000 persons to embrace the Christian faith; but the allegi- 
ance to Christianity of the Kumar’s people at all events seems to have 
