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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYACTA SANCTORUM, vol. I, Antwerp, 1675.‘ACTS OF ST. THOMAS’ (Syriac) M. A. Bevan, London, 1897.ALTEKAR, A. S. ‘Buddha on Indo-Scythian’ JNSI, vol. XIV, (1953), pp. 52-53.AMBROSIUS, Enarrationes in Psalmum XLV, P. L. 88, 1198 (Migne).ANALECTA FRANCISCANA, vol. I (1897)...
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CHAPTER X The Picture of our Lady at the Shrine
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CHAPTER XThe Picture of our Lady at theShrineON the main altar of the shrine, where Holy Mass is celebratedeveryday, there stands an exquisite painting of Our Lady with theHoly Infant in her arms. This impressive representation of the HolyVirgin and the Child Jesus is traditionally acknowledge...
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CHAPTER IX The Bleeding Cross
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CHAPTER IXThe Bleeding CrossTHE chief attraction for pilgrims and tourists to the Mount is theBleeding Cross of St. Thomas. This cross, carved by St. Thomas,as tradition would have it, was accidentally discovered as thePortuguese were digging up the foundations for a new church onthe hill. Bish...
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CHAPTER VIII The Shrine on the Hill
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CHAPTER VIIIThe Shrine on the HillTHE heap of ruins on St. Thomas Mount spurred the religiouscuriosity of the Portuguese. Excavations conducted on the spothave led historians to the belief that the earliest church on the hill,after the one built by the Apostle, was that of the Armenians,erected a...
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CHAPTER VII St. Thomas’ Mount-Martyrdom
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CHAPTER VIISt. Thomas’ Mount-MartyrdomIF Little Mount goes down to history as the place that extendedshelter to the Apostle Thomas and San Thome de Meliapor as thehallowed spot that possesses his tomb, St. Thomas’ Mount will everbe known as the Calvary of St, Thomas, which he climbed for thelast t...
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CHAPTER VI Little Mount
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CHAPTER VILittle MountSIX miles from Fort St. George and four miles south-west of SanThome de Meliapor, there rises a hillock about eighty feet abovesea-level. It is known as Little Mount, or, to put it in popular Tamil,Chinna Malai. To the Portuguese, it was ‘Monte Pequeno’. This isone of the thre...
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CHAPTER V The Tomb
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CHAPTER VThe TombIN the year 1545, St. Francis Xavier, the greatest missionary, afterSt. Thomas, visited Mylapore and stayed there four months. He wasa guest of the Vicar of Mylapore, Father Gaspar Coelho. Thwartedin his ambitions to convert the people of Malacca and the Far East,Xavier resolve...
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CHAPTER IV On the East Coast
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CHAPTER IVOn the East CoastIT is noteworthy that the ancient song, described in the foregoingpages, says that at a certain stage the Apostle ‘started for thecountry of the Tamils’. The author, doubtless, means ‘for thecountry which is now of the Tamils’. For, at the time of the Apostle,as was remar...
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CHAPTER III Traversing India
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CHAPTER IIITraversing IndiaTHE connection of St. Thomas with King Gundaphor, noted in theprevious chapter, gives us sufficient reason to say that the northIndian region was one of the fields of the Apostle’s labours. We donot, however, have today any traces of his apostolate there. This isnot di...
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CHAPTER II In India
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CHAPTER IIIn IndiaDid St. Thomas, one of Twelve Apostles of Christ, really come to theIndia of today? This is the first question to be examined inconnection with the tradition of St. Thomas.One of the earliest works to refer to St Thomas as the Apostlewho evangelized the India of today is the Syria...
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CHAPTER I St. Thomas and the ApostlesCHAPTER I St. Thomas and the Apostles
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CHAPTER I St. Thomas and the ApostlesSACRED SCRIPTURE has not passed down any informationconcerning the origin, parents, or early life of St. Thomas. He wasthe first one of the twelve to enter the Gospels practicallyunnoticed, leader of the silent, almost mute apostles. The first sevenapostle...
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CONTENTS
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CONTENTSList of illustrations … 6Foreword … 9I. St. Thomas and the Apostles … 13II. In India … 19III. Traversing India … 31IV. On the East Coast … 42V. The Tomb … 59VI. Little Mount … 69VII. St. Thomas' Mount-Martyrdom … 76VIII. The Shrine on the Hill … 80IX. The Bleeding Cross … 86X. The Picture of our La...
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IN THE STEPS OF ST. THOMAS BY the late RT. REV. HERMAN D'SOUZA Foreword … 9
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FOREWORDIT is only since some eighty years or so that the traditionregarding the apostolate of St. Thomas has been subject tocritical study and investigation. The first full-size treatisewritten on the subject seems to be the scholarly work of H. E.the Rt. Rev. Dr. A. E. Medlycott, entitled: ‘Ind...
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