{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 8,
  "chapterName": "c.329-390. Gregory Nazianzen on St. Thomas’ Apostolate to India",
  "pageFrom": 5,
  "pageTo": 5,
  "pages": [
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      "pageNumber": 5,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n5\n2. The bones that merchantmen carried, or was it then that they\ncarried him?.\n3.\nThat merchant made gain, and waxed great and reigned.\nHis storehouse has made me very poor his storehouse has been\nopened in Edessa, and has enriched the great city with benefit.\nEphraim's hymns 'On Thomas the Apostle' testify to the tradition of\nSt. Thomas' mission in India. A. E. Medlycott, India and the Apostle\nThomas, pp. 26ff, 29ff.\nXI. Blessed art thou Thomas, the Twin, in thy deeds twin\nis thy spiritual power; nor one thy power, nor one thy\nname:\nXIV. Blessed art thou whom the Great King hath sent, that\nIndia to his One-Begotten thou shouldest espouse;\nabove snow and linen white, thou the dark bride didst\nmake fair\nXVII. Blessed art thou, O Thrice-Blessed City! that hast\nacquired the pearl, none greater doth India yield..\nI.\nThe One-Begotten his Apostles chose,\nAmong them Thomas, whom he sent\nTo baptise peoples perverse, in darkness steeped.\nA dark night then India's land enveloped,\nLike the sun's ray Thomas did dart forth;\nThere he dawned, and her illumined.\nV.\nThe client of Thomas needs not men his praises to sing :\nGreat is the crowd of his martyred followers.\nLo, his Bones, his Passion, his work proclaim;\nHis Miracles, him yet alive assert;\nHis deeds the rough Indian convinced.\nWho dares doubt the truth of his Relics?\n8. GREGORY NAZIANZEN ON ST. THOMAS' APOSTо-\nLATE TO INDIA (329-390 A.D.)\nGregory Nazianzen associates St. Thomas with India in his\nAgainst Arians, XXXIII, Para XI. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers,\nVol. VII, p. 332.\nBe it that Judaea is Peter's home; what has Paul in common\nwith the gentiles, Luke with Achaia, Andrew with Epirus, John\nwith Ephesus, Thomas with India, Mark with Italy, or the rest\nnot to go into particulars, with those to whom they went?..\nSee also Jerome's letter to Marcella, No. LIX, 395/396. Nicene and\nPost-Nicene Fathers. Vol. VI, p. 123.",
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