" came the renowned Basil, a catholicon of the:,
" East, and with him Mar Junius, a metropolitan^
" After their death we were as sheep without a
"shepherd. Then came a certain one who said,
" that he wasMetropolitan ofNineve, andthatMar
"£liBs,the catholicon, had sent him. -His name
'* was Grabriel, and his &ith in Ohrist was.thii$»^



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"' there in"e /ico natures and two persons.' SatndaM ••
," He sp^l^e m^ucfa, against Mary tliemcftter of Godj
" wherefore we believed him not. But a certain
"'excommunicated elder, named: Matthew, went
" oyer to him, and believed him, whereupon arose •
" much c()nfusion among us..
"After this, I went to the Viceroy of the Fort of
" Cochin, and related to him these circum>stanees.
•* Then said he to me,. send a letler by m* to your •
"spiritual Fathers,, and I will deliver it to Mar
" Igiiatius of Antioch.. Wherefore I look unto yoii
" for the said bishops, %nd for the cause of God,
<* send us the missionaries with all speed. So bie it.
.♦'Amen, , :

" ^his letter is written froin the church of Cadenatte,
« called 6«r Lady. V. M. G.
•' In the cup of our Lord : in the year one thousapcl,
" seven hundred and nine..
