[59] More strictly the name Coromandel is applied to the eastern coast of India north of Cape Comorin, and Malabar to the western coast. [60] i.e., "It shall not be compared with the dyed colors of India" (Job, xxviii, v. 16). [61] See plan of Madras, and maps of Coromandel coast, in Bellin's Atlas maritime, iii, fol. 37-39. [62] The Basilian order was founded by St. Basil, bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia. His rule became so popular in the East as to supplant all others; and at this day it alone is recognized and followed by the monks of the Greek Church. This order also made its way into southern Italy, Poland, Hungary, and Russia. Nearly all the convents of Basilian nuns (founded by St. Macrina, sister of Basil), like those of the monks, have embraced the Eastern schism. (Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary, citing Hélyot's Ordres monastiques.) [63] Spanish, crescas, a word not given in the lexicons, but evidently, from the context, to be thus rendered. [64] See Linschoten's account of this story of St. Thomas's preaching in India, and A. C. Burnell's notes thereon, in Voyage of Linschoten (Hakluyt Society Publications, London, 1885), i, pp. 83-89. Burnell says that this story is unknown to the natives of India, and evidently originated in Syria. The inscription on the alleged tomb of St. Thomas near Madras is now known to be Nestorian, of about the ninth century A. D. [65] Tercia: the third part of a vara (33.38+ inches), therefore a little more than 11 inches; generally used as a measure of length. [66] Concepción's account of this occurrence (Hist. de Philipinas, vii, pp. 258, 259) contains an explanation somewhat remarkable for a period when sanitary science had made little progress, even in Europe. "Governor Don Manuel de Leon was sick from excessive corpulency; and Don Juan de Sarra treated him by making cruel cuts in the flesh of his body. He attended, when these incisions were not yet quite healed, the funeral of Doña Maria del Cuellar, the deceased wife of Auditor Don Francisco Coloma; and in the church the vapors which exhale from buried corpses--which, experience proves, cost those so dear, who enter the church with sores or wounds, as these are poisoned and corrupted by those vapors--had the effect on the governor of opening his wounds, and bringing on a hemorrhage which exhausted him, [and he died. April 11, 1667]."