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About Thomas Stephens
Thomas Stephens SJ was an English Jesuit priest, missionary, writer, and linguist of Marathi and Konkani in Portuguese India. Educated at Oxford, he was one of the earliest Western Christian missionaries to early modern India. He, along with Roberto de Nobili, helped in converting the top class of Indian society by adopting local practices and writing books in local languages, to appeal to the local people. He is famous for having written the Krista Purana laid down in meters of bhakti poetry.
Everything about Thomas Stephens →- Occupation
- linguist, missionary
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- 1549
- Died
- 1619