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1321 Friar Odoric of Pordenone HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN Friar Odoric of Pordenone arrived in India in 1321. He visited Malabar, touching at Pandarani (20 m. north of Calicut), at Cranganore, and at Kulam or Quilon, proceeding thence, apparently, to Ceylon and to the shrine of St Thomas at Maylapur near Madras. He wrote that he had found the place where Thomas was buried. 1302-1330 Jordanus, Catalani, Bishop of Columbum http://ricci.rt.usfca.edu/biography/view.aspx?biographyID=1415 Jordanus, Catalani, Bishop of Columbum, is also known as Jordanus Catalani de Séverac, Friar Jordanus, Severaco). Friar Jordanus recorded his journeys to India, Asia and the Middle East, reporting on local customs, products, and religion. His information includes China, distances between cities, etc. In his second letter, dated in January, 1324, Jordanus relates how he had started from Tabriz to go to Cathay, but embarked first for Columbum with four Franciscan missionaries, and how they were driven by a storm to Tana, in India, where they were received by the Nestorians. There he left his companions, and started for Baroch, where he hoped to preach with success, as he was better acquainted with the Persian tongue than the others were. Being detained however at Supera, he there heard that his four brethren at Tana had been arrested, and returned to aid them, but found them already put to death. He was enabled to remove the bodies of these martyrs by the help of a young Genoese whom he found at Tana and, having transported them to Supera, he buried them in a church there as honourably as he could. The only remaining date in the biography of Jordanus is derived from a bull of Pope John XXII, the date of which is equivalent to 5th April 1330, addressed to the Christians of Columbum, and intended to be delivered to them by Jordanus, who was nominated bishop of that place. The bull commences as follows: "Nohili viro domino Nascarinorum et universis sub eo Christianis Nascarinis do Columbo, Venerabilem fratrem nostrum Jordanum Catalani, episcopum Columbensem, Prædicatorum Ordinis professorem, quem nuper ad episcopalis dignitatis apicem auctoritate apostolicâ duximus promovendum --" etc. The Pope goes on to recommend the missionaries to their goodwill, and ends by inviting the Nascarini (Nazrání, Christians, in India) to abjure their schism, and enter the unity of the Catholic Church. The Pope had shortly before nominated John de Coro to be Archbishop of Sultania in Persia. This metropolitan had, at least, three bishops under him, viz., of Tabriz, of Semiscat, and of Columbum. The two latter were entrusted by the Pope with the Pallium for the archbishop. Sultania, between Tabriz and Tehran, was the seat of the Persian kings pre-vious to the Tartar conquest in the thirteenth century, and 74
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN was still a great centre of commerce between the Indies and Europe. The number of Christians was so great, that they had in this city, it is said, four hundred churches. (?). We may suppose that Jordanus, after fulfilling his commission at Sultania, proceeded to his see in Malabar by the Persian Gulf, the route which he had followed on his first visit to India ; but whether he ever reached it, or ever returned from it, seems to be undetermined. M. Coquebert-Montbret assumes that he did both but as far as I can gather, this is based on the other assumption, that his Miribilia was written after returning a second time. My impres-sion is that it was written before he went out as bishop, for it contains no allusion to his having held that dignity. Nor does it appear to be known whether he had any successor in his episcopate. Father Jordanus Catalani, a French Dominican missionary, followed in 1321-22. He reported to Rome, apparently from somewhere on the west coast of India, that he had given Christian burial to four martyred monks. Jordanus is known for his 1329 “Mirabilia” describing the marvels of the East: he furnished the best account of <strong>Indian</strong> regions and the Christians , the products, climate, manners, customs, fauna and flori given by any European in the Middle Ages - superior even to Marco Polo’s. 1347, Giovanni de Marignolli In 1347, Giovanni de Marignolli visited the shrine of St Thomas near the modern Madras, and then proceeded to what he calls the kingdom of Saba, and identifies with the Sheba of Scripture, but which seems from various particulars to have been Java. Taking ship again for Malabar on his way to Europe, he encountered great storms. They found shelter in the little port of Pervily or Pervilis (Beruwala or Berberyn) in the south-west of Ceylon; but here the legate fell into the hands of "a certain tyrant Coya Jaan (Khoja Jahan), a eunuch and an accursed Saracen," who professed to treat him with all deference, but detained him four months, and plundered all the gifts and Eastern rarities that he was carrying home. Later he was appointed bishop of Bisignano; 75
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