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478 BENEDICTVADAKKEKARA DOCUMENT V!3 J.tM. Copia dell'Ordine mandata da Mons. Hartmann ai Missionari Carmelitani che devono uscire da Bombay: 'Omnia mobilia et immobilia, in Missione hac acquisita, Missionis pro– prietas sint, et auferri nequeant. Quae autem Missionarius praeter vestiarium secum sumere liceat ex Superioris Missionis judicio dependet. Unde mobilia hic relicta (etiam R.[everendissi]mi Episcopi Mennitensis) extrahere minime licet nisi Sac.[ra] Congregat:io expresse aliud jusserit, prout ex litteris E[minentissimi] Cardinalis Praefecti dare constat'. 2. Carme/ife Vicariate efBombcry in impasse The creation of the Apostolic Vicariate ofBombay was a straight offshoot of the establishment of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide in 1622 for outmanoeuvring the Padroado's unrelenting claim to exclusivism and for reinvigorating in this way the Church's evangelizat:ion undertakings. The strategy included the creati.on of Apostolic Vicariates as nerve-centres of missionarizing. In India the first Apostolic Vicar was chosen in the person of Matthew de Castro (1594-1677) 1 4, a native priest. On 16 November 1637 he was made Apostolic Vicar ofBijapur. Equipped with pressing appeals from the Propaganda to the August:inian, Capuchin and Carmelite Superiors in the Levant, Mgr Castro left Rame in Apri! 1638 and proceeded to his destination via the Middle East. To his immense relief the Capuchins in the Orient carne to the succour of his inceptive Vicariate. Along with 4 Capuchins - Zeno of Baugé, Peter of Pithiviers, John Baptist of Pair-en-Ren and Stephen of Chatellerault 15 - he resumed his joumey from Aleppo on 1 March 1639. Disembarking in Goa in November 1639, Mgr Castro and his three companions (Fr John Baptist had died at Shirar), to their chagrin, had to reckon with the tenacious obstructionism of the Padroado authorities. In the face of this insurmountable antagonism, they decided to call it quits. While Mgr Castro made his way to the 13 AGCarm, Gran Mog11/ 268-f. 14 Matthew de Castro Mahalo, first apostolic vicar ofBijapur (1637) t5 Ali Capuchin friars: Zeno of Baugé (fl. 1670), Peter of Pithiviers (fl. 1643), John Baptist ofPair-en-Ren (t 1639), Stephen ofChacellerault (t 1655). ·