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@himanshugurjar9002 Certain Historical Facts
The mortal remains of St. Thomas were taken to Edessa and conserved in a church named after him, says Mar Ephrem (CE 363) in his book, Parishudhatmavinte Veena, written in Syriac. Mar Ephrem, who was born in Nisibis, spent his last days in Edessa. The remains were taken to Italy along with the mortal remains of martyrs from the Middle East, during the holy war. The bone of the right hand was brought to India with the permission of the Vatican. This is conserved at the church in Azhikode in Kodungalloor where St. Thomas first arrived in a ship.
Earlier, the gospel activities of St.Thomas in North India, as well as Gondophares were considered as mere fiction. The existence of this King has now been established by the coins recovered from Punjab, Sind, and Afghanistan (A. E. Medylcott, India and the Apostle Thomas). Dr. Bellew recovered a stone scripture, kept in the Lahore Museum, about the Parthian empire ruled by Gondophares. This stone scripture is known as Takht-i-Bahi stone. The regime of Gondophares begins in CE 46, i.e. during the first half of the First Century (Kudapuzha, Xavier, The History of Indian Church). This agrees well with the period of St. Thomas’s visit to India.
During 1289, sent by Pope Nicolas IV to India and China, John of Monte Carvino, a Franciscan friar, visited the Coromandel Coast and stayed in India for 13 months. He also stayed at San Thom where the tomb of St. Thomas stands (Yule, Henry and Cordier, Henri, Cathay and the way Thither). John of Marignolli, who visited India in CE 1348, has written about the Christians in Kollam. Nicholas de Conte, an Italian merchant, has described his visit to the tomb in CE 1441 and also about the Nestorians and Jews in Malabar (Major, R. H., India in the Fifteenth Century).
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