St. Arul Anandar Church (Madurai)
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John de Brito(Arul Anandar), the scion of a powerful aristocratic Portuguese family, who came as a missionary to Madurai was sentenced to death in Oriyur, for preaching about Jesus, by an Indian chief or king, the Setupati of Marava, on January 28, 1693, and executed by beheading the following February 4, 1693. It is said the executioner hesitated, not fully willing to kill Brito. Brito responded to the executioner, "My friend, I have prayed to God. On my part, I have done what I should do. Now do your part." The executioner obeyed, and St. John was slain. In a letter he wrote to his superior, Father Francisco Laynes, he stated that "When guilt is virtue, to suffer is its glory"
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