Portuguese explorer who first went to India and mistook a Hindu temple for a church, praying to Krishna and Devaki whom he thought were Jesus and the Virgin Mary.
"When Vasco Da Gama and the Portuguese first went to India, they went looking for the St. Thomas Christians who already existed there. They came across a Hindu temple that they assumed was a church and prayed to the image of Krishna and his mother Devaki whom they took for Jesus and the Virgin Mary."