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as lie had great authority among the Moors, he spoke before them with such affection 

 of Christianity that those who heard him were astonished. The Frenchman confessed 

 to the Father that he was a Christian and that the law of Mahomet had never satisfied 

 him. The Father exhorted him to a general confession, giving him for the purpose 

 a method, and at the same time a book of the Christian doctrine to read ; and, as 

 the spiritual physician continued for some days his ministrations to the sick man , he 

 converted him and restored him to the use of the sacraments of Holy Mother 

 Church. He received them with much devotion and many tears, and parted from 

 this present life with manifest signs of salvation." 1 



Fr. Felix says that a note in the Agra Mission Archives states that ' c the old 

 Church [of Agra] was built by Philip de Bourbon of the House of Navarre and his 

 wife Juliana, an Armenian lady, who was in medical charge of the Emperor's harem. 

 They are both buried in the Church itself. Probably the epitaphs are in Armenian." * 

 On what authority is this note in the Agra Mission Archives based ? To us it appears 

 partly unreliable. The money with which the first Church of Agra was built came 

 from Jahangir, from KLhwaja Martin (+ 1611) and from Mirza Sikandar senior. And, 

 since the Agra Church built by Jahangir was destroyed by Shah Jahan after Decem- 

 ber 8, 1635, no Armenian inscriptions are now to be found in the floor of the Chapel 

 which was reconstructed on the spot of the former Church. 3 Is there question of the 

 chapel which preceded the church of 1604 ? 



It has been urged that John Philip de Bourbon is mentioned in some of the Jesuit 

 letters, e.g. in du Jarric. It is said Prince Salim in 1602 had in his service one Giovanne 

 Filippo through whom correspondence passed between the Jesuits and Prince Salim, 

 who was then at Allahabad. 4 It must be remarked, however, that F. Guerreiro's 

 Relacam Annul de 602. e 603...., on which du Jarric's account is based, says he 

 was an honourable Italian ff who had come from Goa with the Fathers," and whose 

 name was Jacome Felippe (James Philip). The name occurs four times in close suc- 

 cession in Ch. VIII, foil. 59^-61^. Besides, du Jarric has the name Jacques Philippe. 6 

 In Father Jerome Xavier's letter (Agra, 6th September, 1604) he is still spoken of as 

 an Italian, but not by name. 8 



The genealogical tree of the Bourbons, as we have it through Col. W. Kincaid, 

 does not tally with what we now learn about Mirza Sikandar, his sons and grandsons. 

 We do not mean to discredit the Bourbon story more than we can help, but we fear 

 it must be largely modified. It is vitiated at its very source by making of Bibi 

 Juliana the wife of J. P. de Bourbon. Such as it is, the Bourbon tradition must be 

 a very old one, for it is until now the only Indian account through which the name of 

 a Juliana of Akbar's reign had been perpetuated to us. 



1 Cf. P. Guerreiro, S.J., Relacam annal das covsas. . . . de 1607 & 608. . . . Lisboa, 1611, fol. i8r. The letters from 

 India are of 1608 and 1609 (see note ao lector). 



2 Cf. [Fr. Felix, o.c.l, Catholic Calendar and Directory for the Archdiocese of Agra. ... for the year 1907, p. 204 n. 26. 



3 I found within the limits of the Catholic Cathedral compound of Agra only one Armenian inscription. It is in 

 excellent condition, but must be deciphered. It was worked into the arch below the date 1772 on the frontispiece of 

 the Native chapel and forms a window-sill. No one would suspect it there. 



* Cf. J. A. SB., 1896, p. 88. 5 Cf. Troisiesme partie des choses plus memorables Bovrdeavs, 1614, p. 82. 



6 Cf. J.A.S.B., 1896, pp. 91, 92. I have examined my photographic copy of the letter. 



