"Fr. James Brodrick, well-known biographer of St. Xavier and himself a Jesuit, while writing about Minguel Vaz, a co-worker of St. Xavier, states how the policy followed by Vaz in effecting conversions involved “‘a great deal of pressure, social and financial ” and resulted in breeding a hatred of Christianity : ‘Minguel Vaz Coutinho. Strange to say, this dignitary, who in effect ruled the Church in Portuguese India, was a layman. St. Francis held in him the highest regard and so did the King of Portugal. A zealous and honest man, the ‘true father of the Indian Christians ’, as the Saint described him, he was yet narrow- minded and very oppressively hostile to the native religion. It was not as he imagined, by destroying Hindu Sanctuaries in Portuguese territory and applying their revenues to the building of churches that the Indians would be won to Christianity. No Hindu in Goa, Cochin, Malacca and other centres was ever forced by that policy to accept the faith, but a great deal of pressure, social and financial, was exercised to ‘ persuade’ them to do so. Of course, it had exactly the opposite effect and bred a hatred of Christianity. All said, however, it was but the application in India of the accepted motto of European politics, Cajos regio, illius religio.’'"