After These Chaldeans Came One Mar Joanne, Who Was Sent By
The Greek Patriarch, And Resided At Cranganor Where He Introduced The
Chaldean Ritual.
His successor was Mar Jacob, who died in 1500, and
was succeeded by Mar Joannato.
Thus the bishops and heresies continued
among the Thomists till 1536, when Pope Paul IV. appointed Juan
Bermudez patriarch of Ethiopia, Simin Sulacca bishop of Caheremit
the metropolis of Mesopotamia, Mar Elias as patriarch of Mosul,
and Mar Joseph bishop of Nineveh, whom he ordered to govern the
Christians of Malabar, with the bishop Ambrose Montecelli for his
coadjutor. By this interference of the Pope there were two patriarchs of
the East, one orthodox at Mosul, and the other heretical at
Antioch. Joseph and Ambrose went over to the mountains of Malabar, to
assume the pastoral charge of the Thomists; but the latter separated
from the former and went to Goa, where after reading divinity for some
time he died at Cochin in the year 1557. As Don George Temudo bishop of
Cochin perceived that Joseph spread the poison of Nestorius among his
flock in Malabar, he contrived to have him apprehended and sent in
chains to Portugal, were he was permitted to return to his bishopric on
promise of amendment[421]. On his return he found Mar Abraham
officiating as bishop of the Thomists, who had chosen him in the absence
of Joseph; and as Abraham found himself persecuted, or disturbed in the
exercise of his functions by Joseph, he went to Rome where he got a
brief from Paul IV. appointing him bishop of the Thomists, having
engaged to reduce that people to the orthodox faith. Yet neither he nor
Joseph adhered to their engagements, but continued in their heresies.
After this one Mar Simon came to Malabar, saying that he was sent by
the patriarch of Babylon to officiate as bishop of Malabar. He was
received by the queen of Pimienta and placed at Cartuse, where he
exercised episcopal functions; till being carried to Lisbon he was
sent thence to Rome, where he was condemned by Pope Sixtus Quintus as
a mere Nestorian and not even a priest. After the death of Mar Abraham
his archdeacon governed the diocese, as no Babylonian prelates dared to
come to Malabar, Don Alexius, the archbishop of Goa, using his utmost
endeavours to keep out all such heretical prelates, which was the
particular occasion of his present visitation.
[Footnote 421: Under this story we may presume without any lack of
Christian charity, that these promises were extorted by means best known
to the inquisition, that diabolical instrument of the pretended
disciples of the Prince of Peace, and eternal opprobrium of the
Peninsula. With regard to Joseph there was some shadow of excuse, as he
seems to have accepted his appointment from the orthodox pope, though
secretly attached to the heretical Nestorian patriarch. - E.]
This prelate found that, among other errors, the Thomists denied the
virginity of our blessed lady[422]: They rejected the use of images:
they believed the souls of the just did not enjoy the beatific presence
of God till after the general judgment:
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