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A "Doubting Thomas" is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus' crucifixion wounds.
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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. Go away ...
Thomas Kozaki (died 1597), see Saints Paul Miki and Companions; Thomas Garnet (died 1608), Jesuit priest who was executed in London; Thomas De Van Nguyen (died 1839), of the Vietnamese Martyrs; Thomas Du Viet Dinh (died 1839), of the Vietnamese Martyrs; Thomas Thien Tran (died 1838), of the Vietnamese Martyrs; Thomas Toan, of the Vietnamese Martyrs
The Gospel of John is the only canonical one that gives Thomas the Apostle a dramatic role and spoken part, and Thomas is the only character therein described as being apistos (' unbelieving '), despite the failings of virtually all the Johannine characters to live up to the author's standards of belief.
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