[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 366.3.6 # Storia do Mogor 366.3.6 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 366.3.6 - **Language:** English ### [366.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.3.6) Thus you should not wonder, gentlemen, if the Malabar Christians, who had about them nothing of the heathen when under the guidance of their legitimate shepherd, have become more heathen than Christian after falling under the rule of thieves and robbers. You who are on the spot see every day the poor Christians smearing themselves over like masqueraders. Some cover their bodies with heathen marks, others cover their foreheads with cows' ashes. These carry their dead to burial with the sound of trumpets and of drums ; those carry them to the grave on a species of throne, as done by the Hindus, and decline to put them in a bier, as all Christians ought to do. The men wear jewels in their ears \[307\] representing the attributes of the false gods; the women hang talis on their necks with a cross on one side and the head of an idol upon the other. These ornaments are blessed by the reverend Jesuit fathers, and in their church they cause them to be put by the bridegroom upon the bride. One caste is separated from another in church ; and the wretched Pariahs receive the most Holy Sacrament at the door, while the other castes are admitted to the Holy Table. You, I say, who live in these places, and know more of these things than I could tell you, I need not seek to make you read what was written and sent to Rome by Monsignor de Tournon, Patriarch of Antioch and Legate à Latere; nor what the Reverend Father François Marie of Tours sent in to the Holy Inquisition. - [Previous: 366.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.3.5) - [Next: 366.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.3.7) - [Up: 366.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.3.6) · Pramāṇa