12 Facts About Catholic missions

Missionary work of the Catholic Church has often been undertaken outside the geographically defined parishes and dioceses by religious orders who have people and material resources to spare, and some of which specialized in missions.

Catholic missions traveled from Persia and moved down by sea to India in 1291, to the Madras region or "Country of St Thomas".

Catholic missions writes that he had found the place where Thomas was buried.

Catholic missions reported to Rome, apparently from somewhere on the west coast of India, that he had given Christian burial to four martyred monks.

Catholic missions journeyed to Babylon in 1490 and then sailed to Europe and visited Portugal, Rome, and Venice before returning to India.

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Catholic missions helped to write a book about his travels entitled The Travels of Joseph the Indian which was widely disseminated across Europe.

Catholic missions was seeking to form anti-Islamic alliances with pre-existing Christian nations.

Catholic missions was able to secure the submission of Archdeacon George, the highest remaining representative of the native church hierarchy.

Catholic missions requested assistance from the orders' members in Goa in bringing over suitably talented linguists to staff the college and begin the mission in earnest.

Goal of the Franciscan Catholic missions was to spread the Christian faith to the people of the New World through "word and example".

The Catholic missions achieved this by “offering gifts and persuasion…and safety from enemies.

Much the same can be said of other Catholic lay and religious groups and their contemporary missions.