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*1947 Canonization of [[w:Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala|Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala]] (+1902) by the [[Church of India]], the first saint canonized by the church; canonization of [[w:Eldho Mor Baselios|Eldho Mor Baselios]] of Kothamangalam (+1685) by the [[Church of India]], the second saint canonized by the church.
*1947 The [[w:Union of India|Dominion of India]] gains its independence from the United Kingdom, as British India is dissolved; a largely Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan are created by partitions of the subcontinent, with Punjab and Bengal divided along religious-demographic boundaries between the two.[[Image:Stthomas-stamp.jpg|right|thumb|St. Thomas Stamp Issue by the Govt of India (1964).]][[Image:19thDCent StThomas.jpg|right|thumb|Stamp Issue by the Gov't of India comemmorating the 1900th anniversary of St. Thomas' martyrdom (72-1972).]]
*1952 Immediately after the ''"All Kerala Celebrations of the 19th Century of the Landing of St. Thomas in India,"'' [[w:Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant|Cardinal Tisserant]] brought a part of St. Thomas' relics back to India, with the main portion was enshrined at Kodungalloor where the Apostle first set foot in India, and the other portion at Mylapore where he died.
*1958 '''Unification''' of the [[w:Malankara Church|Malankara Church]] again (lasting from 1958-1975), after the split in 1912: on September 12, the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of India recognized the validity of the Catholicate and unanimously declared that the Patriarch of Antioch does not have any authority over the Malankara church and that the Indian church is completely free under the [[w:List of Catholicos of the East|Catholicos of the East]]; by an accord, Syrian Patriarch [[w:Ignatius Ya`qub III|Moran Mor Ignatius Ya`qub III]] affirmed his canonical acceptance of the Catholicate as well as the 1934 Constitution of the Indian Orthodox Church; the two factions of the [[w:Malankara Church|Malankara Church]], viz; [[Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church|Jacobite]] and [[Church of India|Orthodox]], re-united.
*1964 Patriarch [[w:Ignatius Ya`qub III|Moran Mor Ignatius Ya`qub III]] visited India and consecrated [[w:Baselios Augen I|Mor Augen Thimotheos]] as the Catholicose of the East; thus 'Mar Baselios Augen I', the Metropolitan of Kandanad diocese, became the first “canonically” ordained Catholicose/Maphriyono of the East from India ''(from the Jacobite point of view)''; the government of India brought out a stamp of St. Thomas, in connection with the Bombay International Eucharistic Congress and the visit of Pope Paul VI to India in 1964.
