124 H. HOSTEN ON 



Prince, remembering the pig, asked the young man's master if he had received it, to 

 which he answered : ' No, my Lord, and I have neither seen nor heard anything of 

 it.' The Prince thereupon sent for the young man and rated him soundly as a 

 disgrace to his religion, dismissed him from his service, took away what he gave him 

 for his daily maintenance, and ordered that two or three months' arrear of pay owing 

 to him should be forfeited.' ' ' 



The Annual Letters of Goa for 1619 mention the Mirza as the Governor 

 of a province over which Jahangir has appointed him. He had in his service more 

 than 200 Christians, and two of the Fathers resided at his court. The name of 

 the province is not given in the Annual Letters of 1619 and 1620, but we find 

 Sambhar mentioned in Letters of 1621 and 1624 We read in the Annual Letter for 

 1619' 2 : — 



Mission of Mogor. — [P. 131] " Of the four Fathers employed on that Mission, 

 two reside at Agra, the ancient Capital of the King, and two accompany him 

 wherever he goes, because he wants it so 



[132] "Our harvest of [new] Christians was largest in a certain Province 

 over which the King has appointed as Governor an Armenian Christian, a man 

 of singular virtue, whom all the Christians worship as their Father. His name 

 is [133] Mrize Zulcarnen [Mirza Zu-1-Qarnain]. He has taken at his Court some two 

 hundred poor people, whom he maintains without regard to expense. 3 His largesses — a 

 bait wherewith he conceals his hook — attract the Gentoos and Maomettans so 

 strongly that he fishes up many into the Church of Jesus Christ, who then 

 abjure their vile Maomet. Having been installed Governor of that Province, 

 he secured at once the services of one of our Fathers, and when he had 

 taken possession of his Province, he called still another. 1 Both have reaped 

 plentiful fruit ; so necessary is it for the propagation of the Gospel that it should 

 first pass through the ears of the body. Hence many Gentoos and Maomettans 

 have been regenerated through baptism, and these Neophytes are drawn by the 

 Governor's good example to assist with great devotion at Mass and the divine offices, 

 and they show great fervour in frequenting the Sacraments. He asked the Fathers 

 to establish a Sodality of the Holy Mother of God, and was the first to give his 

 name. Like a bright glowing torch, he leads the way in the observance of the rules, 

 hears Mass daily, takes the discipline on Fridays, and distributes himself the 

 disciplines to the brethren. The women have grown jealous of the piety of the men. 



1 J.A.S.B., 1896, p. 92. Fr. Jerome Xavier heard this story probably at Fatehpur Sikri, where he saw the Prince. 

 At the time of writing Fr. Xavier was at Agra, where Akbar then resided. 



2 The Annual Letter of Goa from which we quote was made up at Goa by means of the letters received from the 

 different houses and Missions dependent on the Province of Goa. It is dated February i, 1620. The Letter from Mogor 

 recited therefore the particulars of 1619. Cf. Lettere Annus del Giappone, China, Goa, et Ethiopia. Scritte al M. R. P 

 Generate della Compagnia di Giesu. .. .negli anni 1615, 1616, 1617, 1618, 1619. . . .Napoli, Lazaro Scoriggio. MDCXXI, 

 PP- I3I-I37- 



3 He had begun to employ them in 1614. Cf. infra Fr. Corsi's letter, p. 135. 



+ The Catalogues of the Goa Province mention under Mogor : Fr. Joseph de Castro at Sambhar in 1621, and Fr. 

 Goncalo de Souza at Sambhar in 1624. There is a letter (MS.) by Fr. Corsi from Sambhar, September 17, 1624. 



