The most commonly believed tradition of origin among Saint Thomas Christians relates to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle, who is said to have come to India in middle of the 1st century. There is no contemporary evidence for Thomas being in the subcontinent, though it was possible for a Roman Jew of the time to make such a trip. Groups such as the Cochin Jews and Bene Israel are known to have existed in India around that time. The earliest known source connecting the apostle to India is the Acts of Thomas, likely written in the early 3rd century, perhaps in Edessa. (Although the Acts of Thomas; as well as other books discovered around the Dead Sea, are not found in most Christian Bibles today, they are found in the Bibles of the Churches in the regions where Peter, Paul, Thomas, Bartholomew and Thaddeus spread the Christian faith.)
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:19:08 +0000
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