{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 12,
  "chapterName": "c.547. Cosmas Indicopleustes on Christians in India",
  "pageFrom": 8,
  "pageTo": 8,
  "pages": [
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      "pageNumber": 8,
      "ocrText": "8\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\nhim both with the particulars of his wanderings and the hopes\nIndians had of receiving Christianity. He also begged him to send a\nbishop and clergy there, and by no means to neglect those who\nmight thus be brought to salvation. Athanasius having considered\nhow this could be most profitably effected, requested\nFrumentius himself to accept the bishopric, declaring\nthat he could appoint no one more suitable than he was.\nAccordingly this was done Frumentius invested with episcopal\nauthority, returned to India and became there a preacher of the\nGospel, and built several churches, being aided also by divine\ngrace, he performed various miracles, healing with the souls also\nthe bodily diseases of many. Rufinus assures us that he heard\nthese facts from Edesius, who was afterwards ordained to the\npriesthood at Tyre.\n11. GREGORY OF TOURS ON THE REMAINS OF\nST. THOMAS (538-593 A.D.)\nGregory received information concerning the tomb of St. Thomas\nin India from a pilgrim named Theodore who had visited it. Mira-\nculorum Liber, 1.32. Patrologia Latina, 71.733. Cited in A. C. Peru-\nmalil, The Apostles in India, p. 75.\nHis (Thomas') holy remains after a long time were removed\nto the city of Edessa in Syria and there interred. In that part of\nIndia where they first rested, stands a monastery church of striking\nThis Theodore who had been to the place\ndimensions\nnarrated to us.\n12. COSMAS INDICOPLEUSTES ON CHRISTIANS IN\nINDIA (c. 547 A.D.)\nCosmas travelled to India in c. 520-525 A.D. He was a Nestorian\nChristian. He wrote a book, Christian Topography, in which he gave\ndetails concerning the Christians he found in Malabar and Sri Lanka.\nThe extract is from Christian Topography, III. 178. English transla-\ntions are found in J.W. McCrindle, The Christian Topography of Cosmas\nIndicopleustes, p. 118 ff, and B. J. Kidd, Documents Illustrative of the\nHistory of the Church, Vol. III, p. 31.\nEven in Taprobene (Ceylon), an island in Further India, where:\nthe Indian sea is, there is a church of Christians, with clergy and\na body of believers, but I know not whether thereby any Christians.\nin the parts beyond it. In the country called Male (Malabar), where\nthe pepper grows, there is also a church, and at another place called.\nCalliana (Quilon) there is moreover a bishop, who is appointed\nfrom Persia. In the island again called the island of Dioscorides",
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