The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c28.33

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5. We learn from a Jesuit letter of 1600 that "in the mission of Bisnaga (Vijayanagara) there are three priests and one Lay Brother"⁶. These four Jesuits were Frs. Veiga and Ricio, who had arrived at Chandragiri in the previous year, and Fr. Belchior Coutinho and the English Lay Brother, Alexander Frey, a painter, who reached the court in 1600. Another letter says that the three Fathers and Bro. Alexander, did excellent pioneer work, "a great deal for the improvement of the Bisnaga (Vijayanagara) mission. The King", adds the letter, "is very well disposed towards them"⁷.