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Francis Xavier SJ: The Man and His Mission – Sita Ram Goel


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    St. Thomas in Santhome Cathedral
  • Oh Thomas! No Thomas!

    › Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement. — Seneca

    › To teach superstition as truth is a most terrible thing. — Hypatia

    › Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal justice if it is to ask for universal assent. — M. K. Gandhi

    › The world has produced three great impostors: Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. — Frederick II of Sicily

    › What have been Christianity’s fruits? Superstition, bigotry, and persecution. — James Madison

    › Generally speaking the men who have written on India were a set of liars. — Strabo

    › What India gives us about Christianity in its midst is indeed nothing but pure fables. — Alphonse Mingana

    › The oriental ubiquity of St. Thomas’s apostolate is explained by the fact that the geographical term ‘India’ included the lands washed by the Indian Ocean as far as the China Sea in the east and the Arabian peninsula, Ethiopia, and the African coast in the west. — Leonardo Olschki

    › The Nestorians of India venerated St. Thomas as the patron of Asiatic Christianity—mark, not of Indian Christianity. — Leonardo Olschki

    › Christians must acknowledge the historical fact that from Bethlehem to Madras, most of their sacred sites are booty won in campaigns of fraud and destruction. — Koenraad Elst

    › If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — Karl Popper

  • Judas Didymus Thomas the Apostle of the East

    St. Thomas
  • Did Christianity arrive in India before Europe?

    India’s political leaders are fond of telling their constituents and the nation that Christianity arrived in India before it arrived in Europe. This historical conceit is simply not true. In Acts 19:21 Apostle Paul records his travels through Ephesus and Greece—Achaia and Macedonia—en route to Jerusalem, then on to Rome. In Romans 15:24 & 15:28 he says that he plans to visit Spain. These journeys took place in the 40s CE—some historians say he was writing after 44 CE. So even if it was true that Apostle Thomas landed in Kerala in 52 CE—the spurious date is of 19th century origin—Christianity would still have arrived in Europe a decade earlier.

  • Knai Thoma or Thomas of Cana aka The Merchant

    Thomas of Cana
  • Bishop Joseph of Edessa

  • Who are the ‘St. Thomas Christians’ of India?

    Thomas of Cana, also known as Knai Thoma, led the first group of 72 Syrian Christian families to India in AD 345. There is no record of Christian communities in India prior to this date. Thomas of Cana and his companion Bishop Joseph of Edessa also brought with them the tradition of St. Thomas the Apostle of the East. Later, Christian communities in Kerala would identify Knai Thoma with Mar Thoma—Thomas of Cana with Thomas the Apostle—and claim St. Thomas had arrived in Kerala in AD 52 and established the first Christian church at Musiris—ancient port near present day Kodungallur—the main trading port of the time.

    The Rev. Dr. G. Milne Rae of the Madras Christian College, in The Syrian Church in India, did not allow that St. Thomas came further east than Afghanistan. He told the Syrian Christians that they reasoned fallaciously about their identity and wove a fictitious story of their origin. Their claim that they were called ‘St. Thomas’ Christians from the 1st century was also false.

    Syrian Christians were called Nasranis (from Nazarean) or Nestorians (by Europeans) up to the 14th century. Bishop Giovanni dei Marignolli the Franciscan papal legate in Quilon invented the appellation ‘St. Thomas Christians’ in 1348 to distinguish his Syrian Christian converts from the low-caste Hindu converts in his congregation.

  • San Tommaso Cathedral Basilica, Ortona, Italy

    San Tomasso Basilica, Ortona, Italy
  • The real tomb of Saint Thomas at Ortona, Italy

    Tomb of Thomas, Ortona, Italy
  • The bones of Thomas the Apostle at Ortona, Italy

    Thomas's bones
  • San Thome Cathedral, Mylapore, Madras, India

    Santhome Cathedral
  • First St. Thomas Church in Mylapore built 1523

    San Thome Cathedral, Mylapore, Madras, was built in 1893 in Gothic style by the British. The first St. Thomas church to appear on the Mylapore beach was built in 1523 by Portuguese pirates and Augustinian friars against the ancient Kapaleeswara Temple wall. The Christian tactic of encroaching on Hindu buildings and holy sites and then taking them over continues in Tamil Nadu till today.

  • Diorama in the fake St. Thomas tomb at San Thome Cathedral

    St. Thomas Tomb Tableau
  • Idol on the empty tomb in San Thome Cathedral

    St Thomas Tomb, San Thome Cathedral, Mylapore
  • Church on St. Thomas Mount replaces an ancient Shiva temple

    St. Thomas Mount Church
  • Ancient Port of Muchiri / Muziris on a Roman map

    Tabula Peutingeriana
  • ‘India’ was a synonym for all Asia in ancient times

    The oriental ubiquity of St. Thomas’s apostolate is explained by the fact that the geographical term ‘India’ included, apart from the subcontinent of this name, the lands washed by the Indian Ocean as far as the China Sea in the east and the Arabian peninsula, Ethiopia, and the African coast in the west.

    Ancient writers used the designation ‘India’ for all countries south and east of the Roman Empire’s frontiers. India included Ethiopia, Arabia Felix, Edessa in Syria (in the Latin version of the Syriac Diatessaron), Arachosia and Gandhara (Afghanistan and Pakistan), and many countries up to the China Sea.

    In the Acts of Thomas, the original key text to identify St. Thomas with India (which all other India references follow), historians agree that the term India refers to Parthia (Persia) and Gandhara (Pakistan). The city of Andropolis named in the Acts, where Judas Thomas and Abbanes landed in India, has been identified as Sandaruck, one of the ancient Alexandrias, in Baluchistan.

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    • Why Indians should reject St. Thomas and Christianity – Koenraad Elst
    • ‘Thomas in India’ neither factual nor secular – Koenraad Elst
    • About the St. Thomas reference in Shashi Tharoor’s book Pax Indica – Poulasta Chakraborthy
    • How Christians created their persecution mythology – Candida Moss
    • The Haaretz Paradox: Why would an Israeli newspaper propagate the myth that St. Thomas was killed by Hindu priests? – Aravindan Neelakandan
    • C.I. Issac: Christian historian disputes St. Thomas in India claim, calls for ban on conversions – G. Sreedathan
    • Keezhadi: Digging to create church history – B.S. Harishankar
    • Jacobite Syrian bishop demolishes Kerala’s conversion myth – Thufail P.T.
    • How St. Thomas-Quetzalcoatl myth was manufactured, justified and continued in the New World – K.V. Ramakrishna Rao
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    • Pope denies St. Thomas evangelised South India – Ishwar Sharan
    • St. Thomas in India: Tiruvalluvar ‘baptised’ to betray Hindus – B.R. Haran
    • Left breeds intolerance by ravaging Ayodhya and eulogising Thomas – B.S. Harishankar
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    • Geeta Padmanabhan votes for St. Thomas – Ishwar Sharan
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    • ASI doubting Thomases suspend dubious KCHR St. Thomas project – G. Ananthakrishnan
    • KCHR’s Muziris Project: Digging for the bones of St. Thomas – B.S. Harishankar
    • National Shame: President Mukherjee repeats the St. Thomas in India tale to Santa Claus – Rajat Pandit
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    • The question of the St. Thomas origin of Indian Christianity – C.I. Issac
    • Did a Hindu king kill St. Thomas? – Ishwar Sharan
    • Jude Sannith and the Times of India: Telling lies for St. Thomas – Koenraad Elst
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    • Temple Looting in Kerala: Yesterday and today – Leela Tampi
    • Christian churches threaten Dalit rights – Leela Tampi
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    • St. Thomas and Caste – Ishwar Sharan
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    • Is not Archbishop Chinnappa obliged to accept the Pope’s stand on St. Thomas in India? – V. Sundaram
    • Mythical Thomas, devious Deivanayagam, and conniving Church – B.R. Haran
    • “Film will legitimize destruction of the original temple,” says Dr. Subramanian Swamy
    • Madras-Mylapore Archdiocese plans blockbuster movie on St. Thomas – Ishwar Sharan
    • Kapaleeswara Temple Memorial Plaque – Ishwar Sharan
    • Tamil scholars condemn Christian author for misrepresenting Tiruvalluvar as St. Thomas’s disciple – R.S. Narayanaswami
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    • S. Muthiah: Chennai’s own holocaust denier – Ishwar Sharan
    • Tsunami: St. Thomas abandons fishermen, saves himself – Ishwar Sharan
    • Indian historian makes a mockery of Indian history – Veda Prakash
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  • Marco Polo was the first writer to put St. Thomas in a Tamil Nadu seashore tomb

    Marco Polo wrote in Il Milione: “It is in this province, which is styled the Greater India, at the gulf between Ceylon and the mainland, that the body of Messer St. Thomas lies, at a certain town having no great population.”

    The bay between Ceylon and India is the Gulf of Mannar, part of the Coromandel Coast region.

    Marco Polo is the first writer in history to locate the tomb of St. Thomas on a seashore and by so doing he revolutionises the legend. All documents prior to him locate the tomb in a mountain of royal sepulchers following the Acts of Thomas. Marco Polo is also the first writer to locate the tomb in South India, in a certain unnamed town which the Portuguese later identified with Mylapore.

    Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy and Marco Polo’s contemporary, called him a liar and maintained that his book was full of falsehoods and fabrications. New research in Oxford agrees that the stories recorded in Il Milione (The Million) were invented or recorded from travellers he met in the Constantinople bazaar, and that he had not actually visited the places he writes about.

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