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According to traditional accounts of the Saint Thomas Christians of India, the Apostle Thomas landed in Muziris on the Kerala coast in AD 52 and was martyred in Mylapore, near Madras, Tamil Nadu in AD 72. [1] [4] [9] [10] He is believed by the Saint Thomas Christian tradition to have established seven churches (communities) in Kerala.
St. Thomas Christian families who claim their descent from ancestors who were baptized by Apostle Thomas are found all over Kerala. [48] [49] St. Thomas Christians were classified into the social status system according to their professions with special privileges for trade granted by the benevolent kings who ruled the area. After the 8th ...
St. Thomas' Church (disambiguation), multiple churches with the name St Thomas the Apostle College , a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys in Nunhead, London. St. Thomas the Apostle Minor Seminary , a preparatory seminary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad in Pakistan
Thomas is martyred (background) by order of an Indian monarch (foreground). The Acts of Thomas connects Thomas the apostle's Indian ministry with two kings. [4] According to one of the legends in the Acts, Thomas was at first reluctant to accept this mission, but the Lord appeared to him in a night vision and said, “Fear not, Thomas.
The Basilica of San Tommaso Apostolo ("St. Thomas the Apostle"), also Ortona Cathedral (Italian: Basilica-Concattedrale di San Tommaso Apostolo; Duomo d'Ortona), is a Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica in Ortona, Abruzzo, Italy, famous for holding the relics of Saint Thomas the Apostle.
San Thome Church, officially known as St Thomas Cathedral Basilica and National Shrine of Saint Thomas, is a minor basilica of the Catholic Church in India, at the Santhome neighbourhood of Chennai, in Tamil Nadu. The present structure dates back to 1523 AD, when it was built by the Portuguese over the tomb of Thomas the Apostle. [1]
St. Thomas Mount, a hillock in Chennai, India where, according to tradition, the biblical Thomas the Apostle was killed; St. Thomas (County Dublin), a civil parish incorporating Jobstown, Ireland; San Tomás (St. Thomas), former name of San Benedicto Island, Mexico; São Tomé (St. Thomas), an island in São Tomé and Príncipe
Saint Thomas Christians (11 C, 85 P) Pages in category "Thomas the Apostle" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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