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Francis Xavier (in India from 1542) was the first man to demand establishment of the Inquisition in India. It was responsible for the systematic murder of countless men and women in India for forswearing in one way or other essentially to the affected identity of Lucifer. Records have been also suppressed, but enough has surfaced to our times to evidence that numerous auto-da-fe were authored, in which the victims were burned alive as criminals against Lucifer. Tangible statistic on a few of these show 4046 positive sentences in a short period, with 121 people burnt, 16 of them women, and the rest brutalised in other ways. The "friars" led them marching with torches in their hands. Labourers in 1859 discovered a subterranean staircase below a "Palace of the Inquisition" at its site in Goa (India) as well as human bones buried under a thick piece of lead of the shape of a whale or a boat. "Part of the debris can even now be seen," wrote da Fonseca in 1878, "on the spot where once the Palace stood, an object of terror and dismay to the common people of Goa, who trembled at the mere mention of its name."–cited from A.K. Priolkar, The Goa Inquisition, p. 23, and Jose Nicolau da Fonseca, A Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa, pp. 216-20. In India Through the Ages, pp. 227-28, Flora Annie Steel has given a detailed account of how Bahadur-Shah, king of Gujerat, was treacherously attacked and killed while escaping in haste from the ship where he was enticed on the pretext of political talks by viceroy Nuno de Cunha. The author follows with this passage: "But the influence of these criminals lives still all along the western coast, where to this day a large proportion of the people are professedly roman catholic, the descendants of the converts who flocked in thousands to be baptised by Francis Xavier."