Jesuit Missionaries in Northern India and Inscriptions on Their Tombs, Agra (Classic Reprint): 1580 1803: 1580 1803 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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If we had only Bernier as our guide, we might think that the Jesuits passed unscathed through these troublous times. It was not so. One of their number, too, perished. Under the year 1633, Fr. H. Dugout, 8.j., gives us the following laconic information Fr. Ignatius Fz'alho, cut down with scimitars in'the Moghul Empire. 41 Neither the exact date nor the place of the martyrdom are known. The Meno logy for Portugal consecrates a short obituary notice to the Martyr. Hundreds of neophytes had been forcibly circum cised; the Missionaries had been cast in prison and cruelly maltreated. Fr. Joseph de Castro had been scourged. Three times, and four,executioners had struck him one hundred blows on the soles of his feet and one hundred ends on his face, till his body was all but a gaping wound. To crown all, Fr. Fialho, while, fearless of death and holding his crucifix aloft, he generously exhorted the faithful to suffer all rather than deny Jesus Christ, fell pierced with severe sword-thrusts.2 Our surmise is that the Father was killed at Agra. Oeven should he have died in the Provinces, it would not surprise us, if his remains - on the supposition that they were recovered - had been deposited in the Martyrs' Chapel. We have remarked before that, when a Missionary died away from Agra, it was not uncommon that his body was conveyed to the capital. Further researches may eventually lead to the discovery of the Martyr's tomb.

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