156 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S.. XIX, 
numbered 10, 11, 12, were interpolated, probably in the last 
decades of the 13th century, or later. He states further that 
the hymn is a summary of the legend as made known in Eu- 
rope by the Anglo-Saxon monk lfric. Elfric translated 
the Acta S. Thomae from the Greek in A.D. 880, three years 
before Alfred the Great sent to India Sighelm, Bishop of 
Sherbourne, and Aithelstan.! : 
Mgr. Zaleski gives for the different translations of St. 
Thomas’ body the following dates: from India to Edessa, 
A.D 222-235; from Edessa to Chios, A.D. 1144; from Chios 
to Ortona in italy; AD? 1456 *. All these dates fall before 
and of John of Monte Corvino (1292-93)—their dates falling 
in the last decade of the 13th century—or after the visit of 
some later missionary like Bishop de’ Marignolli and Friar 
Odoric 2? Perhaps. 
We may Suppose, indeed, that Ortona is not meant. The 
town must have been entirely Catholic, centuries before 1258. 
There could have been no pagans there in or after 1258. 
Chios must be in the same case as regards the date 1144. Edessa 
had been in the power of the Saracens long before the Cru- 
sades, and the boast ought to have been about the absence of 
Muhammadans.’ 
Could M ylapore have been meant 2 In India, in the early 
Portuguese period, the Christians lived generally close together 
declares that he takes some further liberties with this substratum of fact 
d fancy. of all, is that not 
even mention the Catholic Prelate whom he takes as his sole guide. The 
‘Th ia’ is continued at pp. 458-465 (March 
e Act de 
2 
ies established there the ‘c 
ine again taken by the Turks.—Cf. Cath. Encyci.. New Yor 
