The old church on the Malacca hill
This is an addenda and corrigenda page for Fr. R. Cardon’s article “The Old Church on the Malacca Hill,” originally published in JMBRAS Vol. 20, Part I (June 1947).
Summary
The page provides corrections to five specific passages in the original article and one addition. The corrections include: adjusting the date range of a treaty with Leonel de Sousa to 1555 (p. 189); correcting the date of St. Francis Xavier’s death from 27 November to 3 December, citing Father Henry Bernard, S.J., of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes de Tientsin (p. 193); amending the commencement date of Nossa Senhora do Monte to 1566 or 1567 (p. 198); correcting the foundation date from 1535 to 1635 (p. 206); and adding a note that Viceroy Don Martim Alfonso de Castro died of dysentery on 3 June 1607 and is buried in the major chapel of the Jesuit Church (p. 208).