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JARL CHARPENTIER
Seemingly unity with Rome had thus been established but
the calm was only on the surface. It soon came to violent
outbreaks amongst the embittered Christians of St. Thomas,
and as soon as Portuguese power in Malabar began to decay
and fall before the assaults of the Dutch and English a great
many of them hastened to throw off allegiance to Rome. In
1653 a real schism arose between the Romo-Syrians wo still
kept side with Rome and the heretics who went back to their
old faith and orders. The Pope in order to bring back the
straggling sheep into the fold during the 1650’s instituted the
Malabar mission of Discalceate Carmelites who worked for some
two centuries with a fair amount of success but in constant
bickerings with the ecclesiastical authorities of Goa who claimed
for themselves the jus patronale of the entire East.
To put an end to the trouble Pope Gregory XVI in 1838
through the bull ’Multa præclare’ abolished the Portuguese
dioceses of Cochin and Cranganore and made the Syrian
Christians subjects to the Apostolic Vicary of Verapoly. The
Portuguese government, however, refused to give their sanction
to this arrangement; and it was only through the Concordate
of 1886 between Portugal and the Holy See that the Christians
of St. Thomas were formally transferred to Verapoly. Ten
years later they got their own Apostolic Vicaries, resident at
Trichur, Ernakulam and Chenganassery. They now seem to be
leading a quiet and fairly prosperous life. Many of the younger
amongst them have taken to European University training and
cherish a vivid interest in their own ancient history and traditions.
If thus we seem bound to answer the question: did St,
Thomas ever visit South India? in the negative the problem
seems to be somewhat different if we turn to North-Western
India and the neighbouring parts of the Afghan kingdom,
catholica e obediencia da santa Igreja Romana, da qual passava de mil
annos que estaväo apartados’ (Coimbra 1606) which is now of extreme
rareness. It was translated into French by J. B. G len and appeared in
two editions (Antverp 1609 and Cologne 1611). The synodal acts of Diamper
have been translated into English by M. GeddeS History of the Church
of Malabar (London 1694).
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