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Updated: May 7, 2025
Francis Day selected a site for the Company's settlement, had been colonized by fisherfolk from the parish of the Madre-de-Deus Church the Church of the Mother of God and that the emigrant fisherfolk called their village by the name of their parish, and that the name was eventually corrupted into 'Madras. The origin of the name 'Madras' is uncertain; and the explanation is at any rate interesting and not unlikely to be true.
Of the ancient glories of Mylapore no vestige remains; but several of the churches of the Mylapore diocese belong to the sixteenth century, including the celebrated 'Luz' Church, the Church of the Madre-de-Deus at San Thomé and the little Church of Our Lady of Refuge between Mylapore and Saidapet, besides the churches at the Little Mount and St.
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