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[English Translation] illuminated, they arranged the formalities and ceremonies of it. Some time after the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Apostle Saint Thomas being sent by the Holy Spirit to the East Indies to announce the Gospel, as our Ecclesiastical Historians testify, and also the Indies, which still show his burial place today at Malipur, on the edge of the Bengela chasm. This great and holy personage having brought by his doctrine and holiness of life a great number of peoples to the bosom of the Church among whom were several Braquemanes very learned Philosophers, who as disciples after having received the imposition of hands, went through all the countries of Persia, Tartary, China, Iappons, Taprobane and others, there where they had a great fruit converting many souls to the Sovereign Creator and Redeemer of them. Now among all these disciples there was one named Byrachil, greatly zealous, full of self and of the Holy Spirit, working many miracles, curing with his word alone inveterate and incurable diseases and resurrecting many dead people, who having heard talk of this great Kingdom of Antangil and of the police that was kept there |
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