Storia Do Mogor or Mogul India 1653-1708 Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Storia Do Mogor or Mogul India 1653-1708 Vol. 4<br><br>Charles Maillard de Tournon belonging to a good Savoyard family and born at Turin on December 21 1668. On December 21 1701 the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle Tournon was created Patriarch of Antioch having already been empowered by a brief dated December 9 1701 to enquire into and regulate the practices of the missionaries in India and China. He was made Apostolic visitor with the powers of a legate a latere and left Rome on July 4 1702 taking with him several zealous missionary recruits and made his way to Spain. While waiting there for some means of transport to the East he received from the King of F rance the offer of a passage to India. He therefore left Cadiz on February 9 1703 and joined the French man-of-war M aurepas (denis de Fontaine captain) at the Canary Islands whence they set sail on May 3 1703.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.