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building, more in Italian than Portuguese style. It was built in the middle 

 of the 17th century by the order of the Theatins. 



Behind this Church, in low ground, are the ruins of the Dominican 

 Church and Monastery ; and very near these, to the south, but on an eleva- 

 tion, are the ruined Church and Monastery of the Carmelites. 



The Church and College of St. Paul (the Jesuit establishment) are 

 shown in Cottineau's plan just to the south of the Carmelite Convent, but 

 they were in ruins in his time, and now almost all traces of them seem 

 to have disappeared. 



The hospital of St. Lazarus where, says Cottineau, St. Francis Xavier 

 generally passed the night, in order that he might help and serve the sick, 

 was to the east of the Church of St. Paul. 



Behind, that is, to the east of the Dominicans and Carmelites is the 

 Church of N. S. dal Monte, a prominent building standing on a hill. 



Turning to the other side, westward from the main gateway, we come 

 to the Cathedral, dedicated to St. Catharine, on whose day Groa was taken 

 by Albuquerque. It was founded as the first parochical church soon after 

 the conquest, and it became a Cathedral in 1534. According to Cottineau, 

 it was enlarged and rebuilt in its present state in 1630. It is crowded 

 with epitaphs, mostly of the beginning of the 17th century. Many of these 

 have historical interest. I noticed one to the memory- of Gasper de Leao, 

 first archbishop of Goa, who died in 1578. This was removed to the 

 Cathedral in 1864 from one of the other churches. 



In front of the Cathedral, a little to the south, is the site of the 

 Inquisition. Behind the Cathedral and almost contiguous with it are the 

 Monastery and Church of the Franciscans. 



Leaving this group of buildings and passing the ruined churches of 

 Misericordia, we reach what was formerly the heart of the city. A few 

 hovels are all that now remains of the bazar. 



Near these is the Church of the Bom Jesus, with a spacious house 

 adjoining it. From inscriptions in the church itself, it appears to have 

 been founded for the Jesuits by Mascarenhas, Captain of Cochin and 

 Ormus, who died in 1593. It was consecrated by Archbishop Menezes in 

 1605, and the body of St. Francis Xavier, which had been originally 

 deposited in the Church of St. Paul, was removed in 1624 to this church, 

 where it still remains, transferred in 1655 from one side of the church to 

 the other. 



Over the main altar is a statue of St. Ignatius. There is another 

 statue at the side, in silver, of Xavier himself. At the entrance of the 

 church on the left, exposed in a glass case, is the embalmed body of Saint 

 Paulina, with whose history I am not acquainted. Opposite the chapel 

 in which Xavier's body now lies, in the chapel of St. Francis of Borja, and 

 it was here that Xavier's body was first deposited in 1624. 



