Saint Thomas Christian cross

Mar Thoma Sleeva (Saint Thomas Cross) are ancient crosses associated with the community of Indian subcontinent, who trace their origins to the evangelism of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century AD. __NOTOC__ J We find all these and much more about the cross in contemporary writers, but none of them mentions a similar arched cross as existing in Malabar, although another cross and inscription of the kind in Malabar or elsewhere would most naturally have been brought to the notice of the Malabar and Portuguese Christians in general, and visited, observed, studied, sketched and described in their letters and books by contemporary writers. In the present state of my knowledge therefore I cannot but come to the conclusion that there was not even a single Pahlavi-inscribed arched cross seen in Malabar in or about 1547, the year of the discovery of the mount cross, and that the numerous crosses mentioned by Gouvea as existing in Malabar in 1599 were all imitations of miraculous Mount cross. These were not more than 53 years old when Gouvea heard in 1599 that they had been set up by Saint. Thomas himself or the first Christians of the first century. Joseph, T.K (1929). Malabar Christians and Their Ancient Documents (1st ed.). Thiruvananthapuram. Quoted in Jeevan Philip : Unmasking the Syriacs : The Hidden Origin of Indian Christianity (2022) P The Pahlavi-inscribed crosses of South India are one of the most celebrated examples of the vestiges of ancient Indian Christianity since their discovery by the Portuguese. Church historians have recently been successful enough to bring back the use of these crosses among Syriac Christians of India by explaining the historical background, purpose, and artistic syncretism during the 8th and 9th centuries. Today, almost all of the Christian world accepts these facts and interprets them as a continuation of the parallel developments that took place during the 6th–10th centuries in Persia, Central Asia, China, etc. Jeevan Philip : Unmasking the Syriacs : The Hidden Origin of Indian Christianity (2022) External links Category:Christianity