today, i receive my final freedom. he dies being pierced with spears. thomas has understood something very important about discipleship, that it s all about following jesus whatever the consequences, and that will include persecution, suffering and death. according to local tradition, in 72 ad, his body is laid to rest in mylapore, now part of modern day chennai, but it will not remain there. tradition holds that his followers took his body back to the west to mesopotamia and that they lay in the city of edessa there until the crusades resulted in the bones being brought to europe. dr. georges kazan and
this proves that there are some historical elements in the acts of thomas. it s not all fantasy. can the testing of his relics add scientific proof to the tradition that thomas brought the teachings of jesus to india nearly 2,000 years ago? what are you doing back there, junior?
shrine dedicated to the martyrdom of saint thomas. in terms of history of christianity in india, i think that declaration of thomas as the patron saint of india gave recognition to the long history, or long held history, of thomas christians. the story of saint thomas in the gospel is the story of the importance of faith, reason and doubt. doubt and faith are two sides of the same coin. my lord, my god. without jesus commission to his disciples to become apostles, that is to go out from judea and galilee and spread his message around the world, there would be no christianity. frankly, the followers of jesus would ve gone down in history as a sect of judaism.
away i went away. thomas, so little faith. it s over. perhaps he felt that now that jesus was dead, the group should fragment and break up. perhaps he decided to grieve privately. we have seen him. he was here in this room. no. we have seen him with our own eyes. and i saw him, crucified, dead and buried. it was hard for him to believe that something good could ve come from the terrible crucifixion. unless i see in his hands the
could say, why not by thomas? in bari cathedral in italy is a relic believed to have been venerated for over 1,700 years across the christian world. it s said to be the arm that touched the resurrected jesus, the arm of saint thomas. so if the relics of saint thomas were found to be from the first century, that would be incredibly exciting. could this relic date to the time of jesus and help solve the mystery of what happened to the disciple famous for his doubt? thomas is present in all four gospels, but it s in jerusalem, after jesus has been crucified, in the gospel of john, that his story comes into focus. it s difficult to understand the trauma of the disciples at