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The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia [ɨʃˈtaðu ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ]), also known as the Portuguese State of India (Portuguese: Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or Portuguese India (Portuguese: Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of the sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.
Charles Dellon, the 18th-century French physician, was another Christian who was arrested and tortured by the Goa Inquisition because he questioned Portuguese missionary practices in India. [105] [106] [107] For five years, Dellon was imprisoned by the Goa Inquisition and he was not released until France demanded it. Dellon described, states ...
Thus Portuguese missionaries established Portuguese Mission in 1500. Dom Francisco de Almeida , the first Portuguese Viceroy got permission from the Kochi Raja to build two churches – namely Santa Cruz Basilica (1505) and St. Francis Church (1506) using stones and mortar, which was unheard of at that time, as the local prejudices were against ...
The history of Portuguese missionaries in India starts with the neo-apostles who reached Kappad near Kozhikode on 20 May 1498 along with Vasco da Gama, [4] which represented less than 2% of the total population [5] and was the largest Christian church within India. [4] He was seeking to form anti-Islamic alliances with pre-existing Christian ...
The history of Portuguese missionaries in India starts with the neo-apostles who reached Kappad near Kozhikode on 20 May 1498 along with the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama who was seeking to form anti-Islamic alliances with pre-existing Christian nations. [8] [2] The lucrative spice trade was further temptation for the Portuguese crown. [3]
Consequently, Catholic charitable efforts in India have been extensive. In Portuguese India, for instance, Saint Francis Xavier and his fellow missionaries were especially careful to help the local charitable institutions by tending to the sick, both spiritually and physically, and performing other works of mercy. [28]
João dos Santos (Évora – Goa, 1622) was a Portuguese Dominican missionary in India and Africa. Life. On 13 August 1586, four months after leaving Lisbon, ...
Map of Asia and Oceania c.1550. The Portuguese presence in Asia was responsible for what would be the first of many contacts between European countries and the East, starting on May 20, 1498 with the trip led by Vasco da Gama to Calicut, India [1] (in modern-day Kerala state in India).