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*40 [[Apostle Thomas]] is brought before King Gondophares, in [[w:Takshasila|Takshasila]] in North India (Pakistan).<ref group="note">St. Thomas preached there for some years, after which, becoming aware of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he went back to Jerusalem; on his second journey, the Apostle came to Malabar, established the Church and preached there for many years; then he went to the Coromandel Coast, where he died a martyr at Calamina (Mylapore) by the order of Masdai, king of that place.</ref>
*52 Arrival of St. [[Apostle Thomas|Thomas the Apostle]] in '''[[w:Muziris|Muziris]]''' (near [[w:Kodungallur|Kodungalloor]])<ref group="note">The Greeks called this place Mousiris and the Jews, Muzirikode.</ref> in the Indian state of [[w:Kerala|Kerala]], founding the Church in India.
*52-72 St. Thomas converted and baptized many caste Hindus including thirty-two Namboori (Brahmin) families and certain members of the royal family, Namely, Bana Varma Perumal and his nephew who later became Kepa, the first Archbishop of Kerala; St Thomas established 7 churches at: [[w:Kodungallur|Kodungalloor]]; [[w:Palayoor|Palayoor]]; [[w:North Paravur|Paravur]]; [[w:Kokkamangalam|Kokkamangalam]]; [[w:Kayalpatnam|Chayal]]; [[w:Niranam|Niranam]]; and [[w:Kollam|Kollam]].<ref group="note">According to a very ancient tradition, Thomas had ordained two bishops, four rambans, seven priests and twenty-one deacons - that priesthood continued in unbroken succession from generation to generation in the families of Pakalomattam and Sankarapuri. Historians are of the opinion that Thomas established the early [[Divine Liturgy|liturgy]] here in Aramaic (Syriac), since in those days, Greek was the chief language of the West, and Syriac, that of the East; also, on account of their close contact with the Jews, Aramaic was not unfamiliar to the Keralites. (Nirappel, Rev. Dr. Antony ([[w:Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Kanjirappally|Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Kanjirappally]]). ''[http://www.ewtn.org/library/HOMELIBR/KERALA.TXT The Kerala Church].'' Changanacherry Kerala, India.).</ref>
*72 Martyrdom of St. [[Apostle Thomas|Thomas the Apostle]], in the neighborhood of [[w:Mylapore|Mylapore]], city of [[w:Chennai|Chennai]], state of [[w:Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]].<ref group="note">The body of the Apostle was buried near the Mylapore beach where the ''San Thome Cathedral'' now stands. The relics were taken to Edessa in the third or early fourth century. When that place fell into the hands of the Mohammedans, they were moved to Island of Chios in 1141, and from there to Ortona in Italy in 1257, where they remain under the main altar of the St. Thomas Cathedral. In 1952, immediately after the “All Kerala Celebrations of the 19th Century of the Landing of St. Thomas in India,” Cardinal Tisserant brought a part of the relics back to this land; its main portion is enshrined at Kodungalloor where the Apostle first set foot in India and the other portion at Mylapore where he died.</ref>
*105 Church established at [[w:Kuravilangad|Kuravilangad]] (''[http://www.stmarykuravilangad.org/ St. Mary’s Forane Church]'').
