Third and last part: Letter from Fray Gaspar de San Agustin to a friend who asked him as to the nature of the natives of the Philipinas Islands

66. Consequently, those who have experience are wont to declare that the faith enters into the Indians through the eyes; and hence it seems worthy of consideration that it was the apostle St. Thomas whom our Lord 229 had prepared for the teaching of the Indians - he who desired that the belief in his glorious resurrection might enter through the eyes: Nisi videro . . . non credam (John xx, 25).