Barlaam and Ioasaph
Barlaam and Ioasaph
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of fiery tongues, and despatched them
unto all nations, for to give light to them that sat in the
darkness of ignorance, and to baptize them in the Name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, whereby it fell to
the lot of some of the Apostles to travel to the far-off East and
to some to journey to the West-ward, while others traversed the
regions North and South, fulfilling their appointed tasks then it
was, I say, that one of the company of Christ's Twelve Apostles,
most holy Thomas, was sent out to the land of the Indians,
preaching the Gospel of Salvation. "The Lord working with him
and confirming the word with signs following," the darkness of
superstition was banished; and men were delivered from idolatrous
sacrifices and abominations, and added to the true Faith, and
being thus transformed by the hands of the Apostle, were made
members of Christ's household by Baptism, and, waxing ever with
fresh increase, made advancement in the blameless Faith and built
churches in all their lands.
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