The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . -ing any very exact notion of it; in their conception, itis not so much a spirit made in the image of theCreator as a double of the man, only more subtile thanthe visible corporeal man. The Malagasy is naturallyprone to lying, cupidity, and sexual immorality. MADAGASCAR 510 MADAGASCAR which is for him so far from being a detestable vicethat parents are the first to introduce their children todebauchery. This immorality and the lack of sta-bilit
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . -ing any very exact notion of it; in their conception, itis not so much a spirit made in the image of theCreator as a double of the man, only more subtile thanthe visible corporeal man. The Malagasy is naturallyprone to lying, cupidity, and sexual immorality. MADAGASCAR 510 MADAGASCAR which is for him so far from being a detestable vicethat parents are the first to introduce their children todebauchery. This immorality and the lack of sta-bility and fidelity in marriage are the great ;staclesto the development of the family and of the Christianreligion in Madagascar. The ;t priests to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christto Madagascar alter the discovery of the island, camewith the Portuguese. Old cUicuments mention reli-gious who, about the year 1540, accompanied a colonyof emigrants to the south-eastern part of the island,where they were all massacre<l together during thecelebration of a feast. Then again, about , FreyJoao de S. Thome, a Dominican, appears to have been. View of Tananarito, Madagascar poisoned on the coast of the island. In the seven-teenth century two Jesuits came from Goa with Ra-maka, the young son of the King of Anosy. Thisyouth had been taken away, in 1615, by a Portugueseship, to Goa, where the viceroy had entrusted him tothe care of the Jesuits; he had been instructed andbaptized. Ramakas father permitted these twoJesuits to preach Christianity in his dominions. Butsoon, when they were beginning to wield some powerfor good, the king, instigated by his ombiasy (sorcer-ers) forbade his subjects to either give or sell anythingwhatsoever to the fathers. One of the two died, butthe other succeeded in returning to India. Someyears after this, the Lazarists, sent by St. Vincent dePaul, essayed to concjuer Madagascar for the Sociite de IOrient had then recently taken pos-sessi
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