Indian Antiquary Vol 32

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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JANUARY, 1903.) THE CONNEOTION OF ST. THOMAS WITH INDIA.
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18. - Rufinus Tyrannus ; born about 345, died 410. He wrote in Italy. Extracts from his "Historia ecclesiastica :"
Lib. I. Cap. IX., "De captivitate Frumentii et Edesii, et de conversione Indorum per ipsos gesta.
"In es divisione orbis terrae, quae ad praedicandam verbum Dei sorte per Apostolos celebrats est, cam aliae aliis provinciae obvenissent, Thomae Parthia, et Matthaeo Æthiopia, * adhaerens citerior India Bartholomaeo dicitur sorte decreta ......"
Lib. II., Cup. V., "De persecntione quae fait apud Edessam.
"Edessa namque Mesopotamiae urbs fideliam populoram est, Thomae Apostoli Reliquiis decorata . .... .."
Prom Migno's Patrologia, Vol. 21, Paris, 1849, cols, 478 and 513.
14.- Bt. Gaudentius, bishop of Brescia in 402; date of death uncertain, probably between 410 and 427. Extract from Sermo XVII. [After speaking of St. John the Baptist, St. Andrew, St. Thomas, and St. Luke, he says]:
“Hornm quatuor beatas habemus in praesenti reliquias, qai regnum Dei, et justitiam *. praedicantes, ab incredalis, et iniquis occisi, Deo semper vivere operationum suarum “virtutibus demonstrantar. Joannes in Sebastena urbe provinciae Palaestinae, Thomas apud "Indos, Andreas et Lucas apud Patras' Achaise civitatem, consummati referuntur."
Migne : Patrologia Latina, Vol. 20, Paris, 1845, cols. 962-3. This Sermon was delivered on the occasion of the dedication of the church "basilica Concilii Sanctorum" at Brescia, for which charch, as St. Gaudentius states in his discourse, he had obtained relics of St. Thomas, and other martyrs, whom he names. The church no longer existe, at least not under ita original name.
18. - St. Jerome; born about 340, priest 379, died 420. Extract from "Epistola LIX. a Marcellam." This letter is sometimes quoted as CXLVIII. It was written in 395 or 396.
"Erat igitur uno eodemque tempore et cam apostolis quadraginta diebus, et com angelis, et in Patre, et is extremis maris finibus erat; in omnibus locis versabatur ; cum Thoma in Ladis, com Petro Romae, cum Paulo in Illyrico, com Tito in Creta, cum Andres in Achais enm singulis apostolis et apostolicis viris, in singulis cunctisque regionibus."
Migne : Patrologia, Vol. 22, Paris, 1845, col. 589.
16. - St. Paulinus of Nola: born at or near Bordeaux about 353, bishop of Nolo 409, diod 131. Extract from Poema XIX., carmon XI. in 8. Felicem :
" Sic Deus et reliquis tribuens pia munera terris "Sparsit ubiqne loci magnas sua membra per urbes . "Sic delit Andream Patris, Ephesosque, Joannem “Ut simul Europam, atque Asiam curaret in illis, "Discuteretque graves per lumina tanta tenebras. "Parthia Matthaeum complectitur, Indin Thomam, "Lebbaeum Libyes, Phriges accepere Philippum." Migne : Patrologia, Vol 61, Paris, 1847, cols. 518-4.
17.- Sozomen, ecclesiastical historian; he wrote his history in Greek at Constantinople about 448. In book 6, ch. 18, speaking of the emperor Valens, who reigned from 864 to 378, he writes :
"Having heard that there was a magnificent church at Edeska 'named after the apostle "Thomas, he went to see it."