APPENDIX A. 

 The Martyrs' Chapel, Padres Santos' Cemetery, Agra. 1 



From the Catholic Cathedral, Agra, to the Padres Santos' Cemetery, as it is called, 

 there is a distance of about twenty minutes. It is further to the west, on the present 

 outskirts of the town. The name had been explained until now, I believe, as a 

 corruption of Padre Santus' Cemetery, itself a corruption of Padre Santucci's Ceme- 

 tery. I have held this view myself , but I now suggest that it is derived from the 

 Portuguese Cemeterio dos "Padres Santos," the Cemetery of the holy Fathers, a 

 common appellative among the Portuguese for their priests. 



The history of the little mortuary Chapel, in which about 25 of the Mogor 

 Missionaries lie buried, the oldest Catholic piece of masonry in Agra, is exceedingly 

 curious, and in view of the interest which this Cemetery evokes, we cannot withhold 

 it longer. 



Fr. Joao de Velasco, S.J. (Goana Hist. 1600-24, Goa 33, foil. 388^-389^, Litt. Ann.) 

 writes on December 25th, 1612 : fC The King granted us for burying the Christians a 

 convenient and ample ground, whither the remains of the Christians were transported 

 amid solemn prayer on the 2nd of November [All Souls' Day] ; the presents offered by 

 the Christians for the dead were distributed among the poor, whether of the faithful 

 or of the pagans; whatever remained was carried to the jail to comfort the prisoners, 

 which act of charity astonished and edified the Moors not a little. Lately this place 

 was adorned with a Chapel (templum), erected with the alms of a pious Armenian, 

 who, free from the bonds of wedlock after the death of his wife, went to Rome and 

 Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to the holy places of our Redemption. From there he 

 went back to his country (patria) and bestowed on the two sons left him after his 

 wife's death whatever they had a right to, after which he devoted himself so wholly 

 to God that he called himself only the Lord Jesus' little slave (mancipiolum) , and did 

 not allow others to call him by any other name. However, he travelled divers 

 countries as a merchant buying and selling goods, and making profits amounting to 

 many thousands of gold pieces (aurei =gol& mohurs ?). But all his gains he gave away 

 to the poor or spent in other works of piety and charity, and that so faithfully that 

 he was loth to subtract anything for his own sustenance : for, he would say repeatedly 

 that these goods were no longer his, but the Lord Jesus', to whom he had consecrated 

 himself. Once, after a long time, five thousand gold pieces were adjudged him at 

 last in a lawsuit, when, to the judge's wonder, he presently distributed among the 

 needy the money he had received ; he ransomed very many captives from his own 

 purse, relieved many in their wants, gave dowries to poor women of good character, 



J Cf. supra, p. 154. 



