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      "chunk_data": "Etymol. Liber., 14.3.15. Patrologia Latina, 82.498. Cited in A. C. Perumalil, The Apostles in India, p. 44.\n\nThis Thomas preached the Gospel of Christ to the Parthians, the Medes, the Persians, the Hyrcanians and the Bactrians, and to the Indians of the Oriental region and penetrating the innermost regions and sealing his preaching by his passion he died transfixed with a lance at Calamina, a city of India, and there was buried with honour.",
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      "chunk_title": "Bartholomew Translates Matthew",
      "chunk_data": "De Ortu et Obitu Patrum, 74.132. Patrologia Latina, 83.152. Cited in A. C. Perumalil, The Apostles in India, p. 65.\n\nBartholomew the Apostle translated the Gospel of Matthew among the Indians into their own language. Finally he was flayed alive by cruel and barbarous people in Albano, a city of Major Armenia; and so he is buried there.",
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