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,xercises Of the Sociss.
/ 10, meditation, holy mat e
nation, spiritual reading, a..
etc. 2. Study of the Sanski
Badage tongues and Of the Vedas o..
sacred writings of tho Hinioos. ..
Composition of q large catechllsm
suited to the people. 4. Four in
structions daily to catech nmens and to
Christians. s.. Audiences given to
friends and to those curious TO see him,
in which he had to listen patiently to
most ridiculous tales. a persecution
was raised against him, but he quietly
continued his proceedings, availing
himself Of the protection of some pow
erful friends whom he had secured; and
the storm passed away, IS did others at
different times. BY degrees, IS he found
he could prudently dooso. he showed
himself more in public. For forty five
years, acting throughout with the per-
mi ssion of his Bishop, Del Noblll lea
this life, CONVEX ting immense numbers,
and gradually associating other mis-
sionaries in his labors. At one time
ridiculous report reached Europe
/ that he had turned pagan, 80 snat ne
had to write to his uncle, Cardinal
Bellarmine, and satisfy him fully on
that point, explaining the nature OF
| his work and it's results. The Francis
rans denounced at Rome his mode OF
conversions, but Gregory XIV. tolerated
It under certain restrictions DO and
| his fellow missionaries converted and
baptised fully l0O.000 idolators, and If
their resources had been greater, and
! If he could have carried out his plan
of establishing college for Brahmin
converts and been seconded by greater
number OF missioners, pagan!s IN
might have been destroyed in Southern
India. To spread among his converts
devotion to the Blessed Virgin he
| composed Tamil verses in her praise
At length, sinking beneath his tolls and
privations, and nearly blind, he was
recalled by his superiors, first to
| Jaffuapatam and afterward to Melia'
pore. whore he lived five years longer,
exerting what strength and sight be
had left in composing end debating
books in the native tongue for the as
| sistance of his fellow missioners. tie
died at Meliapore in 1856, aged ~.
His work was some years later taken
up by John de Brito, Portuguese Jes-
| cit. who WAS beheaded by order OF
! native King, who during the fifteen
| months before his martyrdom baptized
| 5000 COW erts. These missions were Ut
| course greatly hindered and all prog
| ress stopped during the years between
the suppression Of the order in 1878 and
active resumption Of labor by new
Fathers in 1887. Walter Clifford, an
English jesuit sent to India in 1871,
who was drowned in 1914, was very
! useful to the mission. The dietary IN
use until he came was only rice anu
| fish. and these in not sufficient quantl-
ties. aud was too trying to Europeans
engaged in such arduous toll.
He got added to it small
quantity of wine daily and meat
every day except FRIDAYS and satur
| DAYS and the fast days of the Church,
| and bread in moderate quantity, Space
will not allow Of giving here any par.
| ticulars of the condition OF missions IN
India at the present day. For quite
number of years it was fonnd neees-
| sary to have separate m1ssloners 1o'
the pariahs, or outcsst class; ona OF
! these laborers, Father Artraud, mas
been called on account of his remark
able devotion, the Apostle of the Parl
abs.
Father Robert del Nobili is the first
known European Sanskrit scholar; he
| was the first to discover what Euro
pean study of Sanskrit literature has
/ since confirmed: that Brahmanism If .
gross imposture. He fought
Brahmins with their own weap
4 the Vedas-and silenced
To his requirements as an adj
missionary scholar, Max Mu
distinguished professor of s.
/ Oxford, has paid earnest uri
i ligious bigotry sought tot
forgery of the Ezour V
charge was examined
Ellis, a distinguished
by him as we'll as bv
nounced untrue.
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