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Show Bonzii, that are called Tan Su, a mile iftant from the Walls of the Metropoli a Siganfw, asa perpetual remembrance of th fame Many other Footfteps of the Catholick Fait Preached to th S Cl)ifl('fc‘." Wer dilcovered in the following years, which Go have manifefted, but only at that very time hich the Preaching of the Faic arrived amonglt the Chinefes by the labour of the Fath rs of our Society ; wig, That bot the old and new Teftimonie Ston e ‘m\m Tonemay (op (ame Wa '.A,"' 636. o gnal of e ?d""gflh unt I the Repofi B¢ mofk G 0t Wag found g of the Ston 3 ‘ They ad & length th they term thy reach the fam mperours en ciety of Jefu jat the Ston farble Tabl erable Fathe atrodoced th erefted Refiagation of th Ao 1623 or Philip ha that he wen months befor it that the ; ('bidl "{lfl Sigasfiy wit bfoad q0 oblon was engrave wer-Deluce bere appeare ch Of th 1o have man N Of th e Govcn'wu ent fmlttf dat vey :o o be n}:f of th Tfmfkwj might affe& the identity of the Catho Many othe footiteps o e cibin Dfoounidneat th funcrime lick T'aith,and the truth of the Golpel migh be rendred perfpicuous and manifef unto all. The lik Images of the Holy Crofs were feen in th e o Fokien, Anno 1530. in the Provi ce Kiamf: allo a miraculous lig forth, 1635. that was beheld by the Gentiles Fo ien and i the Cit o Cynenchen Ann 1643 Crofle weér found yea, the Venerable Father Martine Riccins, w en that firft he came into China found Xe t/# Kido, to bea name fignifyin the Do&rine of the Croffes, b which the Chriftians Anciently, that were Dilciples f that Do&rine of the Cr of were named ; and [ doubt not at all but that ther were Chriftians in the Kingdoms of China, when that the Tartars abo t 300 Years paftfirft invaded China, man t and that they lived there mixed wit Sarazens, fews, Neftorians, and Gentiles. clean.sh data import.tsv out README in Chin 3 in the time o that is te fay, in the time of Muareus Panlus Venctu , who travelled unto Catay, Marcus Paul whichis the very {fame with China ) Venetus And now whether that Saint Thewmras or any oth r Apoftle ficft Preached the Whether i Gofpel to the Chinefes, is not yet certainly known Father Nicholas Trigantins Saint Thom colleGeth from fome Ancient Tcltimonies of the Chri tians .of the Church of ;‘Eiafi}ifié" Malabar in the Arch-bifheprick of Cranganor, o De Serra, which are termed " the Chrift ans of Saint¢ Thomas That in that place as alfo in Meliapo (whic formerl was called Caluwming s and now by the Portugal Thome) that the Holy Apofile Preached there, by rea on that out of their Gaz or Treafury inithe office of Saint Thomas is recited or rehearfed; Th t by Sain Thomas the Chinefes and Ethiopians were converted t the Truth 5 by Saint Tho mas the Kingdom of Heaventook its flight and afcend= to the Chinefes3 an i the Antipbony, the Ethiopians, Indians, Chinefes, Perfians, in Commemorario of Saint Thomas, offer up Adoration unto thy Holy nam 5 alfoin an Antient Sy#odical Canon, the Bifhops of the great Province iz, thofe other Metropoli‘tans of C ina, Indiz and Pafes, dofend their Letrers of confent ; dde wicha that he that Governed the Church De Serra, at the coming of the Portitga s {uh {cribed himfelf Metropolitan of all India and China but in truth thing bcin more natrowly confidered from thofe circumftances and foo fteps, which bega t be manifeft after the tim clude that Saint Thowmras th Chinefes5 for although thef of Father Trigamim; We cannot certainly conApoftle Preached the Gofpel himfelf among(t th footfteps of the Faith of Chrift here found, do evi dently (hew,that the Chriftian Belief hath been in China,yet n twithftanding thof very Paths or Tra&ts do demonftrate that the Faich had its entranc ! fi w a s m when that the Family of Henbax ruled over three Kingdom, s (whi § clean.sh data import.tsv out README the Chriftia ch is now Nan-. clean.sh data import.tsv out README Faitpe h enittre kin the thir of the Empire wix. in the Province Kigngfi, atthe fhore of the ino China River5 for Antron Crofs is feen and read to have been fixe in the Chinefia Compute,(which Crofs weighed about 3000 weightJ chis Com utation falleth i the year of Chrift, 239. whence the Faichand the Preachers of t e {ame are certainly evinced to have come amongft the Soathern Chinefes almoft bove 141 Years ago. But in fome Years following ( the knowl dge of the Gofpel e being. extinguithed ) was again renewed by Priefts outr f Tacyn, that is, 2]‘;};%*33&?3 India or Syria, in Xenfi a Northem Kingdom of the Chinefes the Royal red Family of Tam reigning, Anno 6 39. asthe Monument tha was foun avoucheth wher |
