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Sharing a few excerpts from Sitaram Goel's book, Francis Xavier : The man & his mission.

"Xavier lived up to this tradition of the Church on the Coromandel Coast. He discovered that, though baptised in 1534, the Parava fisherman could hardly be called...

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..Christians in practice. Some of the still made their living by making images of Hindu deities. All of them were worshipping these “evil  spirits”. According to the History ofChristianity in India published by the United Theological Seminary,  Bangalore, in  1982...

..When the boys informed him that
someone had made an idol, he went with them and had it broken
into a thousand pieces. In spite of all his advice someone persisted in
making idols, he would have them punished by the patangatis
(heads of Parava villages)...

.. or banished to another village. One day when he heard that idols had been worshipped in the house of a Christian, he ordered the hut to be burned down as a warning to
others"

Later on, he mounted the same iconoclastic campaign on the
Malabar Coast. According to the same History, “When the whole
village was baptised, Xavier would get them to pull down their
village temple and break into small pieces the idols it contained."

.. Xavier took great delight in what he had done in Malabar. On
February 8, 1545, he wrote to the Society of Jesus: "Following the
baptisms, the new Christians return to their homes and come back
with their wives and families to be in their turn prepared for
baptism..

..After all had been baptised, I order that the temples of the
false Gods be pulled down and idols broken. I know not how to
describe in words the joy I feel before the spectacle of pulling down
and destroying the idols by the very people who formerly
worshipped them."

One of Xavier's colleagues in this mission of christianising the
Hindus was Miguel Vaz, the Vicar General of India appointed by
Rome. In consultation with Xavier he wrote a long letter to the King
of Portugal in November 1545...

.. The letter outlined a forty-one point plan for spreading the “light of Christianity.” Point No. 3 reads as
follows: “Since idolatry is so great an offence against God, as is
manifest to all, it is just that your Majesty should not permit it
within your territories and an....

.. order should be promulgated in Goa to the effect that in the whole island there should not be any temple public or secret; contravention thereof should entail grave penalties; that no official should make idols in any form, neither of stone, nor
of wood, nor of copper....

.. nor of any other metal;
and that persons
who are in charge of St. Paul's should have the power to search the
houses of the Brahmins and other Hindus, in case there exists a
presumption or suspicion of the existence of idols there.

On March 8, 1547 the King
ordered his Viceroy at Goa that all Hindu temples should be destroyed forthwith.

The Portuguese friars and priests had been destroying Hindu
temples in Portugal's Indian possessions for quite some time past...

Cartas de Affonso de Albuquerque,published from Lisbon in 1915 on
the basis of old records, carries a report from Andre Corsali
stationed at Cochin in 1515.He writes that an ancient &
magnificent temple on the island of Divari had been demolished in
1515 & its sculptures defaced

In 1534 when Goa was made a
bishopric many Hindu temples had been destroyed under the new
policy described as Rigour of Mercy. A list of 156 temples which had
been destroyed in Goa in 1541 is provided in Tomba da Ilha des Goa
e das Terras de Salcete e Bardes by Francisco Pais...

The arrival of a mighty missionary like Xavier gave an
added impetus to the campaign.

In another letter addressed to the Society of Jesus in Paris, Xavier held the Brahmins to be the biggest hurdles in the way of Christianity.
According to him, “There is in these parts among the pagans a class
of men called Brahmins...

There is in these parts among the pagans a class
of men called Brahmins. They are as perverse and wicked a set as
can anywhere be found, and to whom applies the psalm which says:
'From a unholy race, and wicked and crafty men, deliver me, Lord...

If it were not for the Brahmins, we should have all the heathens
embracing our faith.”

The story of how anti-Hindu laws were enacted in Portuguese
territories over a period of time is long. In summary form, it consists
of

1) banishing Brahmins on pain of being made prisoners on the
galleys..

2) Confiscating the properties of those Hindus who sent their
families to neighbouring lands for fear of conversion.

3) Prohibiting the performance of Hindu rites and ceremonies.

4) Banning Hindu
priests and preachers from doing their religious duties.

5) Compelling Hindus to attend church services and listen to Christian doctrines.

6) Depriving Hindus of their traditional rights and
privileges in village communities.

7) Forcing the baptism of Hindu
orphans.

8) Ordering Hindus not to ride on horseback or in palanquins.

The laws were so designed as to humiliate the Hindus
in every conceivable manner.

I'll end this thread by saying this one thing. It takes astronomical levels of insensitivity for a person to be praising a tyrant like xavier who was responsible for the suffering countless innocent Hindus. Shameless

But trust party shills to turn this into some masterstroke🤮

For anyone interested in knowing more. Read up. archive.org/details/Franci…