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Ephrem the Syrian, a doctor of Syriac Christianity, writes in the forty-second of his "Carmina Nisibina" that the Apostle was put to death in India, and that his remains were subsequently buried in Edessa, brought there by an unnamed merchant. [46] According to Eusebius' record, Thomas and Bartholomew were assigned to Parthia and northwest India.
The seventy disciples (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα μαθητές, hebdomikonta mathetes), known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the seventy apostles (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα απόστολοι, hebdomikonta apostoloi), were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. The number of those disciples varies between ...
The Martyrdom of Saint Thomas is an oil on canvas painting, painted by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens in the years 1637-1638. It depicts St. Thomas the Apostle's martyrdom in Chennai, India on 3 July in 72 CE and was painted for the altar of the Barefoot Augustinian church in Prague, St. Thomas's Church. [1]
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]
Date of death Place of death Description Feast St. Thomas the Apostle (Mar Thoma) 1st century AD: Galilee: 3 July 72 AD: Mylapore, Chennai (presently Santhome) The Apostle of India, who came to Tamilakam, present day Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and was martyred on St.Thomas Mount. 3 July (solemnity in India) St. Bartholomew the Apostle: 1st century ...
Doctrine of the Apostles states that, "India and all its countries . . . received the Apostle's hand of priesthood from Judas Thomas…." From an early period the Church of St. Thomas Christians came into a lifelong relationship with the Church of the East [ citation needed ] , which was also established by Thomas the apostle according to early ...
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Thaddeus' story is embodied in the Syriac document, Doctrine of Addai, [14] which recounts the role of Addai and makes him one of the 72 Apostles sent out to spread the Christian faith. [15] By the time the legend had returned to Syria, the purported site of the miraculous image, it had been embroidered into a tissue of miraculous happenings. [16]