56 oo .AecountT or:a Discexeny ora: 
isscanrnie JaOTeGgs 7. : Dray atl! searol biswise 
Rozertus De Nommeravs, or Rovret De i y he: Madura mission, somes 
time about the year 1820 ; this appears from the? es - csetter of P . Prerne Marrin, 
3 
being the first of Collection V, of the- Lettres . Bie antes. -Spedkind of, PEMMAyoEL -Loruz, who' had 
charge of a congregation of Christians® in Tranenesre he says: © Tl y aplus de cinquante ans que ce 
**- nissionaire travaille avec un‘ zéle: indefatigable. au salut) des Matabéires. ©’ Test le dernier. ‘Jesuitté, ‘qui 
ait paru dans le Maduré avec Vhabit que ous. portons en. Europe. Car guoiqu’il y ait plus de quatre~ 
vingts ans, (this letter is dated ie: Ist June, 1700), que le'pere Rossrt Dr Nosirizus fonda cetté 
fameuse mission sur le pied quelle est aujourdhui, cest'a, dire, en s’accommodant;aux coftumes da 
pays, soit pour Vhabit, la nourriture et la demeure, | soit pour les autres usages, qui ne sont point con- 
 traires 4 la. Foi et aux bonnes mcetirs 5 cependant, les Portuzais ne purent se resoudré-a.t ne plus paroitre 
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** en ces terres en habit E Turopeen, qu’ apres avoir été conyaincus par une longue. experience, que, cette con~ 
duite etoit ‘tres préjudiciabie 4 ala religion, et aia ‘propagation de la Foi, par aversion et le mépris que 
ces peuples-ont congfi-contre les Ewropéens.” +, His birth and family are stated in this letter in these 
words. “ Le Pere Ronert Dr Nosiripus illustre par sa naissance, étant proche parent du Pope Mancet 
<¢ ET, et neyeu propre du \Cardimat: Beurarmin, (he Cardinal's mother,Cyyryr7COunyane was sister to 
e Pope Marcetius II. See the article Betiarmin in Bayir), mais plus illustre encore par son Pepa 
(14 
“ ‘par son courage, et par le zéle des Ames ‘dont il braloit, fut le premier qui, au ‘commencement du siecle passé, 
6 miten usage le moyen dontje viens demarler,” &c. The writings of Rozertus De Nogiuizysi in the Tamit 
language were it seems ‘studied by all who entered the Madura mission; P. Pirrre M ARTIN, speaking 
of certain French inissionaries being .sekt, to, this) misson, thus. ‘mentions them, “ Pourt reussir dans 
‘* une enterprise si glorieuse a dieu et si avantageuse a Veglise, il etoit nécessaire Wenvoyer quelques uns 
*t..de nos Peres, Fir 4ncors dans cette anciciné snibsion, ou ils sé pressent apprendre la langue, ' s’instruire des 
“* coutumes et des usages de ces peuples, former des catechistes, lire et transcrire le livres que. le venerable 
“¢ Pere Rozert De Nosiripus et nos dutres Peres out composes,” &c. “Phe nature of these works [have 
stated.in the. text and, as there asserted, in noue: of thems is any attempt, made to conceal, their origin or 
intention : no false title is assumed, but the attack is ‘open and avowedly directed by the Christian 
teacher against. the errors, of .Heathenism—It ‘is certain, however, that the! mission of, Madura was 
founded on the principle of concealing from the natives, the country of the missionaries, and imposing 
them on the people as belonging to tie sacred tribe of the ‘Brdhmans, (Rémuca Bréhmanawas the title: 
assumed) and this deception, probably, led to many more; at least Ropertus De Nosrirevs is accused 
by Mosner in his Ecclesiastical Mistory both of fraud and perjury in his endeavours to support his 
amed character. .The passage in which.he is. mentioned ard the note in which the charge is made, 1 
quote at length. é 
“© Tuusx missionaries of the court of Rome,1 spread the fame of the Christian religion through the’ 
< greatest part of Asia during this century. Tovbegin with India ; it is observable, that the ministerial 
6¢ Jabours of the Jesuits, Theatins, and Augustinians contributed to introduce some trace of divine truth, 
“6 mixed, indedd, with. much’ darkness and supe rstition, into those parts of tat Rast region, that Had 
6 been possessed by: the Poriuguese® before théir exoulsion from’ thence by the ‘Dutch. But of all the! 
“ ‘missions that were established i m these distant parts of the Bloke, none lias bees! more’ constantly and ” 
Ye ea { 9 ‘sti sh} -vosvHc te 
iG RN 3 yioind ois bia (ses aN “wes sas % on Hetalig Sv esiess % i teat .oele 
* ‘Page 14 vol. 5. + Page 19,,vol. 5. . 7, Page 3, yol. 5. a See Nosheim Bes Hist, vol, 4, pase 2lle 
