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.
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