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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Thomas Christians
		There is one incident of the long period of isolation of the St. Thomas Christians from the rest of the Christian world which they are never tired of relating, and it is one of considerable importance to them for the civil status it conferred and secured to them in the country.
		Thomas was a wealthy merchant who had probably come to trade; the King took a liking to this man, and when he expressed a wish to acquire land and make a settlement the King readily acceded to his request and let him purchase land, then unoccupied, at Cranganore.
		He is said to have collected seventy-two Christian families (this is the traditional number always mentioned) and to have installed them in as many separate houses erected for them; attach to each dwelling was a sufficient piece of land for vegetable cultivation for the support of the family as is the custom of the country.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14678a.htm (9702 words)

	Saint Thomas - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Parthian and Indian missions of Thomas may perhaps therefore be regarded as derived from a single tradition, but it is very doubtful whether it is based on any historical facts.
		We know from Cosmas Indicopleustes that there were Christian churches of Persian (East-Syrian) origin, and doubtless of Nestorian creed, in Ceylon, in Malabar, and at Caliana (north of Bombay) before the middle of the 6th century, and even then St Thomas, the reputed apostle of Persia, may have been their special saint.
		A great schism took place in 1653, and of 200,000 Christians of St Thomas only 400 remained loyal to Rome, though many of their churches were soon won back by the Carmelites.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Saint_Thomas (967 words)

	Saint Thomas Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas arrived on the south side of Periyar; on the north side is Cranganoor.
		In the 4th century, a settlement of Jewish Christians was founded in Kottayam by Thomas Kynai at the behest of the Catholicos of the Assyrian Church of the East.
		St. Thomas Christians were classified into the caste system according to their professions, in accordance with the Hindu tradition, with special privileges for trade granted by the benevolent Hindu kings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians (1814 words)

	Saint Anselm's Parish, Tokyo, Japan
		The Rule of Saint Benedict, although it was especially intended for those living in community consecrated under vows of obedience, stability, and conversion of life, is applicable in its essentials to the everyday life of all Christians.
		Saint Anselm, after whom the parish church in Tokyo is named, was a Benedictine monk, and also Archbishop of Canterbury in the eleventh century.
		Saint Anselm's is primarily a church for a large Japanese parish, but for many years, there was also a Mass celebrated in English by the Benedictines each Sunday, to help serve the needs of the growing expatriate community in Tokyo.
	www.saintjohnsabbey.org /lawrence/anselm.html (622 words)

	Thomas Jihyoe of St. Augustine, Augustinian Servant of God - Augustinian Saints
		Thomas Jihyoe of Saint Augustine (1600?-1637) was a Japanese Augustinian friar who gave his life for Christ during the persecution of Christians in Seventeenth Century Japan.
		Thomas, seeing that the Christians there were in great need of pastoral care and guidance, felt a call to return to the land of his birth.
		Subsequently, Thomas' cause was entrusted to the Augustinians.
	www.midwestaugustinians.org /saints/c_thomasjihyoe.html (566 words)

	Saint Thomas Christians
		The Persian emperor Saphur II had begun persecuting Christians in his empire in the middle of the fourth century, and it is possible that a substantial group took flight to India, among other places, as Zoroastrian Parsees did centuries later when Muslims conquered Persia.
		Thomas of Cana and his flock, or any group of immigrants with useful foreign connections, might well have been the beneficiaries of such a scheme.
		As for the accounts of evangelization by Thomas, Stephen Neill (who has done one of the most thorough and balanced investigations into the matter) has summed them up in these words: "Millions of Christians in South India are certain that the founder of their church was none other than the apostle Thomas himself.
	hometown.aol.com /didymus5/ch16.html (1850 words)

	AllRefer.com - Saint Thomas (Early Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The Syriac-rite Christians of Malabar, India, whose church was established by the 3d cent., claim St. Thomas as their founder.
		Among the Pseudepigrapha are a Gospel of Thomas and Acts of Thomas.
		In addition, a Gospel of Thomas was among the 4th-century Coptic books found at Nag Hammadi.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/ThomasSt.html (219 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of January 28
		Saint Antimus was one of the first abbots of Brantôme, an monastery founded by Blessed Charlemagne in 769 and destroyed by the Norman invaders in 817 (Benedictines).
		Although Saint Paulinus was born on a farm to parents of modest means, himself tilled the soil, and studied on his own in his leisure, he was well-educated and earn a reputation as a scholar.
		In art, Saint Peter Thomas is portrayed as an elderly Carmelite wearing a missioner's cross and hat, carrying a staff, with a ray of light shining on the heart of the Virgin Mary on his breast.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0128.htm (3365 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Commercial Page: Saint Thomas Aquinas: books
		In particular, Saint Thomas' huge common sense gives his message an abiding value which can be appreciated by ordinary Christians, trying to practice their faith, as well as by people who are concerned with more sophisticated attempts to articulate and understand their religion.
		Saint Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived.
		He lays out the existential foundations of Saint Thomas Aquinas' thought and makes a compelling case that "the metaphysical positions of Aquinas are still far ahead of what is considered most progressive in the philosophical thought of our own times." Gilson relates the thought of Aquinas to that of his predecessors, especially Aristotle and Augustine.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/stt03com.htm (1078 words)

	Saint Thomas
		Thomas [Greek, form toma, twin], also called Didymos [Greek name meaning a twin] Judas Thomas, was one of the 12 apostles (Matt 10:3).
		Thomas is listed in John 21:1-8 with six other disciples on the Sea of Galilee when Jesus told them to cast a net, and in Acts 1:13, with other apostles in the upper room in Jerusalem after the Ascension.
		Saint Thomas Episcopal Church of Beattyville, Kentucky was named "Saint Thomas" to attest to the esteem in which Bishop Thomas U. Dudley was held by the people of Lee County.
	www.diolex.net /stthomas/stthomas.htm (473 words)

	Religion in Ancient India - Crystalinks
		Christianity, according to tradition (and now supported by recent research), arrived in India in the first century through the apostle Thomas.
		Their form of Christianity is one of the most ancient: Syriac Christianity which is also known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and referred to in India as Saint Thomas Christians.
		Christians are most prevalent in the northeast in states such as Nagaland,Mizoram, south India, major metro areas, and in western states such as Goa.
	www.crystalinks.com /indiareligion.html (1485 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Thomas the Apostle
		Little is recorded of St. Thomas the Apostle, nevertheless thanks to the fourth Gospel his personality is clearer to us than that of some others of the Twelve.
		Again it was St. Thomas who during the discourse before the Last Supper raised an objection: "Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?" (John 14:5).
		Besides the "Acta Thomae" of which a different and notably shorter redaction exists in Ethiopic and Latin, we have an abbreviated form of a so-called "Gospel of Thomas" originally Gnostic, as we know it now merely a fantastical history of the childhood of Jesus, without any notably heretical colouring.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14658b.htm (1061 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Saint Thomas Christians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A body of Christians in India who claim spiritual descent from the Apostle Saint Thomas, Bishop of Mylapore, who was martyred in 68, according to strong local tradition and collateral evidence.
		Various witnesses have recorded that from earliest times a body of Christians dwelt in India and its environs, and, though Saint Thomas is for the first time mentioned in documents c.550, it is highly probable that he was their spiritual father.
		When the Portuguese missionaries arrived in 1500 they considered the Saint Thomas Christians Nestorians (despite protestations to the contrary not voiced until three centuries later), and, laboring to reclaim them, a Synod was held in 1599, at Dampier (Udiamparur), where Saint Thomas priests and laymen promised submission to Rome.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd07533.htm (192 words)

	Saint Thomas à Kempis
		Thomas was born in 1379, in Kempen, a small village near Cologne, Germany.
		John Haemerken, the father of Thomas, was most probably a metal worker, which was one of the popular trades in Kempin, and his mother was a teacher at the village school.
		Thomas was taken to see the other novices and remained with them for eight years, before he took was professed.
	www.sspx.ca /EucharisticCrusade/2002_November/Saint_Thomas_a_Kempis.htm (2082 words)

	Part III: The Myth of Saint Thomas
		The expression A doubting Thomas originated after Thomas, disciple of Jesus Christ, who was not ready to believe the resurrection of the Christ when it was narrated to him by other disciples to whom Jesus appeared for the first time after the crucifixion and burial.
		Thomas declared: A Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe.
		Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Christ (a disputed fact), came to India in A.D. 52 with Habban, a foreign trader.
	hamsa.org /StThomas_Chapt_3.htm (6712 words)

	Saint Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas (Apostle), a Christian saint of the 1st century
		Thomas of Maurienne or Thomas of Farfa (died 720)
		Thomas Cantilupe, or Thomas of Hereford (died 1282)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Thomas (171 words)

	St. Thomas - Catholic Online
		Thomas was a Jew, called to be one of the twelve Apostles.
		When Jesus said He was returning to Judea to visit His sick friend Lazarus, Thomas immediately exhorted the other Apostles to accompany Him on the trip which involved certain danger and possible death because of the mounting hostility of the authorities.
		Thomas is also mentioned as being present at another Resurrection appearance of Jesus - at Lake Tiberias when a miraculous catch of fish occurred.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=410 (540 words)

	Saint Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the original 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ, Thomas, called Didymus, refused to believe in the testimony of the other Apostles concerning the resurrection of Jesus until he saw the wounds of the resurrected Christ himself (John 20:24, 25, 26-29).
		The Acts of Thomas (3d century), however, states that he was martyred in India.
		Saint Thomas' Mount in Madras is the traditional site of his martyrdom.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txh/thomas5.htm (262 words)

	LITURGICAL YEAR - Saint Thomas Catholic Church, Kuantan, Malaysia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christians have ashes placed on their forehead in the sign of the cross to show a spirit of humility and sacrifice.
		The Christian community is not primarily the result of the free decision of believers; at its origin there is first and foremost the gratuitous initiative of the Love of God, who offers the gift of the Holy Spirit.
		The center of gravity of existence has shifted as a result of this certainty: now it lies at the morning of life, which means that it takes away the oppressiveness and the pressure of the moment and dissolves the tears of evening by the power of a grace which lasts for ever.
	www.sainthomas.org /lityear.shtml (4250 words)

	RCIA - Saint Thomas Catholic Church, Kuantan, Malaysia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During this stage, the "catechumens" — people who have not yet been baptized — and candidates — baptized Christians who have not yet been confirmed as Catholics — participate in the Liturgy of the Word at the Mass and are dismissed after the homily to reflect on God’s Word and its meaning in their lives.
		The sponsor’s role is to serve as a guide and companion on the journey toward initiation, to support the candidate or catechumen by sharing their own experiences and problems in living a Christian life, and helping to make their candidate or catechumen feel more “at home” in the Church.
		This last stage of the RCIA process is also the first stage of the rest of their lives of faith, for the life of a Christian is a continuous process of journeying, in faith and conversion, with the community of believers toward new life in the Kingdom of God.
	www.sainthomas.org /rcia.shtml (748 words)

	St. Thomas the Apostle
		Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
		Christians who trace their faith back to his mission live in Malabar, on the western coast of India, to this day.
		Thomas Christians for more information.) There are reports that St. Thomas was slain by a spear while praying on a hill in Mylapur, near Madras on the east coast of India.
	www.smart.net /~tak/Patrons/thomas1.html (1019 words)

	St. Thomas, the Apostle
		Thomas is mentioned again (John 21) as one of the seven disciples who were fishing on the Sea of Galilee (Sea of Tiberias) when the Risen Lord appeared to them.
		A couple of centuries later a story was circulating in the Mediterranean world that he had gone to preach in India; and there is a Christian community in India (the Kerala district) that claims descent from Christians converted by the the preaching of Thomas.
		The tradition among Christians in India is that Thomas was speared to death near Madras, and accordingly he is often pictured holding a spear.
	www.satucket.com /lectionary/Thomas.htm (357 words)

	ATMA JYOTI ASHRAM - Commentary on Saint Matthew 1 - Introduction
		This was because the Essenes–to whom Saint Thomas, like Jesus, had originally belonged–considered that the Hebrew texts of what we now call the Old Testament had been corrupted and could not be completely trusted as guides in spiritual life.
		Following the example of Jesus and Saint Thomas, they based their spiritual study on the Vedic Upanishads and the Buddhist Sutras in addition to the two gospels of Matthew and Thomas.
		Because books had to be handwritten, and because the Christians were vegetarians and therefore would not use animal skins that could be made into huge, long scrolls, but rather only used papyrus which was greatly limited in its length, the evangelists were constrained to write as economically (briefly) as possible.
	www.atmajyoti.org /ch_matthew_1.asp (748 words)

	Saint Thomas, Apostle \| Catholic-Pages.com
		When they told Thomas of this he said he simply would not believe it unless he saw and felt the place of the nails and the wound in Christ's side.
		From very early times, however, there certainly have been Christians in the Malabar coast area of India, and a group there, known as the St Thomas Christians, claims that he personally evangelized that area.
		This tradition holds that St Thomas was martyred, by spearing, near madras in AD 72 and was buried at Mylapore, a suburb of that city.
	www.catholic-pages.com /saints/st_thomas.asp (279 words)

	Assyrian Heritage of the Christians of Mesopotamia
		Christian Assyrian history including members of the Chaldean church and the Syrian orthodox Church is far more complex than Joseph seems to realize.
		The christians of Egypt are known as Coptic which is corrupted form of the Greek Egoptic.
		Due to the new reality it was natural for the Christian Assyrians to emphasis their differences in religion and language which set them apart from their moslem neighbors especially those who previously belonged to their faith.
	www.christiansofiraq.com /joseph/reply.html (4770 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 00440469
		Table of contents for Saint Thomas Christians of India : a period of struggle for unity and self-rule, 1775-1787 / Francis Thonippara.
		The Spontaneous Reaction of the St Thomas Christians to the death of Mar Cariattil.........
		Thomas Paremmakkal: Governor of the St Thomas Christians..........
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy022/00440469.html (628 words)

	Jews and Christians Speak of Jesus
		The essays in this volume offer a conceptual framework by which Christians can rethink their understanding of the church's relationship to Judaism and show how essential it is that Christians represent Judaism accurately, not only as a matter of justice for the Jewish people, but also for the integrity of Christian faith.
		Essays by eleven Christian scholars who have been at the forefront of Christian-Jewish relations in the United States, sharing how their encounters with Jews and Judaism have transformed their understanding and practice of Christian faith.
		John C. Merkle is professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota, and Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN.
	www.stthomas.edu /jpc/publications.htm (1029 words)

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