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0412 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2
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Note 4.—Vague as is Polo's indication of the position of the Shrine of St.
Thomas, it is the first geographical identification of it that I know of, save one. At
the very time of Polo's homeward voyage, John of Monte Corvino on his way to China
spent thirteen months in Maabar, and in a letter thence in 1292-1293 he speaks of
the church of St. Thomas there, having buried in it the companion of his travels,
Friar Nicholas of Pistoia.
But the tradition of Thomas's preaching in India is very old, so old that it pro-
bably is, in its simple form, true. St. Jerome accepts it, speaking of the Divine
Word as being everywhere present in His fulness: "cum Thomâ in India, cum
Petro Romae, cum Paulo in Illyrico," etc. (Scti. Hieron. Epistolae, LIX.,
ad Marcellam.) So dispassionate a scholar as Professor H. H. Wilson speaks of the
preaching and martyrdom of St. Thomas in S. India as "occurrences very far from
invalidated by any arguments yet adduced against the truth of the tradition." I do
not know if the date is ascertainable of the very remarkable legend of St. Thomas in