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(called “didymus” )
(which means “the twin”)
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*”thomas the apostle” was 1 of the 12 apostles of jesus christ, according to the “new testament”*
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(he is informally called doubting thomas because he doubted Jesus’ resurrection when first told (in the ‘Gospel of John’ account only), followed later by his confession of faith, “My Lord and my God”, on seeing Jesus’ wounded body)
(traditional legend written centuries later claims he travelled outside the ‘Roman Empire’ to preach the ‘Gospel’, travelling as far as ‘Tamil Nadu’ and ‘Kerala’ in present-day ‘India’)
(according to undocumented traditions, the ‘Apostle’ reached ‘Muziris’, (modern-day ‘North Paravur’ and Kodungalloor in the state of Kerala, India) in AD 52 and baptized several people, founding what today are known as ‘Saint Thomas Christians’ or “nasranis”)
(after his death, the reputed relics of ‘Saint Thomas the Apostle’ were enshrined as far as ‘Mesopotamia’ in the 3rd century, and later moved to various places)
(in 1258, some of the relics were brought to ‘Abruzzo’ in ‘Ortona’, ‘Italy’, where they have been held in the ‘Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle’)
(he is often regarded as the ‘Patron Saint of India’, and the name Thoma remains quite popular among ‘Saint Thomas Christians’ of ‘india’)
(today scholars say the legends are “no more than possible” for there is no written claim before centuries later)
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