Storia do Mogor 274: Roberto de' Nobili.

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The number of Christians is continually increasing, to the greater glory of the founder of that mission. His mind alone could have poured the faith into the hearts of the heathen, for he spoke the Grandonic language, which is their Latin, just as if it were his mother-tongue. At his first visit the Prince of Tanjor asked many questions of the father. The latter replied to every question by a verse in the Grandonic language. The fathers who join this mission suffer great hardships, and all go about clothed like pandarao (pandaram) who are the same as the Hindu bishops; they eat nothing but vegetables and fruit. At this time the greater number of Christians are in Madura and Tanjor.