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³ It has been supposed that the Jesuits were also established in the very city of Vijayanagara during the time of its splendour, or perhaps during Sadasiva's reign. Cf. Slater, *Where Religions Meet*, Q. J. M. S., VIII, p 307-8. We are sure that no Jesuit was ever established in the city near the Tunghabadra; nor do we even know of any other missionary settled there. The only information we have is that in the year 1542 Fr. Antonio Patrao or Petronio, a Franciscan Friar, converted 1300 Hindus in the kingdom of Vijayanagara (not in the City) and built a church dedicated to St. Anthony, which was afterwards converted into a monastery. The place where this missionary obtained this harvest is not given. Cf. *Historia Chronologica*, O Gabinete Litterario das Fontainhas, I, p. 86.