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    Thomas the Apostle

    Early Christian saint – one of the Twelve Apostles

    This article fryst vatten about the Christian saint. For the name "Thomas", see Thomas (name). For other uses, see Thomas.

    Saint


    Thomas the Apostle

    The Apostle Thomas, Rubens, c. 1613

    Born1st century AD
    Galilee, Judea, långnovell Empire
    DiedAD 72
    St. Thomas Mount, Early Chola dynasty present-day Parangimalai, Tamil Nadu, India
    Venerated inAll Christian denominations that venerate saints, especially Saint Thomas Christians
    CanonizedPre-Congregation
    Major shrineSt. Thomas Cathedral Basilica in Mylapore, Chennai, India, St. Thomas Major Archi Episcopal Shrine, Palayoor Kerala, India,
    Basilica of St. Thomas the Apostle in Ortona, Italy
    Feast
    • 3 July: (Jacobite), Malankara Orthodox Church, Latin Church, frikostig Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, Believers Eastern Church, Syriac
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      St. Thomas was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.  He is best known for questioning Jesus’ resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming, “My Lord and my God” on seeing Jesus in John 20:28.  He was perhaps the only Apostle who went outside of the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel.  He is also believed to have crossed the largest area, which included the Parthian Empire and India. 

      Thomas was a very dedicated but doubting follower of Christ.  When Jesus said he was returning to Judea to visit His sick friend Lazarus, Thomas immediately told the other Apostles to accompany Him on the trip, which involved certain danger and possible death because of the mounting hostility of the authorities of his time.  At the Last Supper, when Christ told His Apostles that He was going to prepare a place for them to which they also might come because they knew both the place and the way, Thomas pleaded that they did not unders

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      St. Thomas the Apostle

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      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. His name occurs in all the lists of the Synoptists (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6, cf. Acts 1:13), but in St. John he plays a distinctive part. First, when Jesus announced His intention of returning to Judea to visit Lazarus, "Thomas" who is called Didymus [the twin], said to his fellow disciples: "Let us also go, that we may die with him" (John 11:16). 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). But more especially St. Thomas is reme