The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c28.46

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6. The year 1600 witnessed a great loss to the recently founded mission of Chandragiri. Fr. Manoel de Veiga, who is justly called its founder ², was called to St. Thome and appointed Visitor of the Jesuit houses of the South ³, with a view to separating them from the Province of Goa. We find him accordingly in 1601 visiting the Jesuit stations on the Fishery Coast ⁴, and after a while, in the month of December, at Cochin ⁵. It seems that Fr. Veiga’s opinion was not favourable to the separation of the Vice-Province of Malabar ⁶. Nevertheless, without his concurrence, it was effected shortly after; and Fr. Veiga was then appointed Provincial of the Province of Goa ⁷.