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From a show there appears to be a small Christian Indian mix that dates to around the 1st century. There is no hard evidence of the gospel Thomas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians
The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Nasrani or Malankara Nasrani or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethnoreligious community of Malayali Syriac Christians from Kerala, India, who trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.[4][5] The terms Syrian or Syriac relate not to their ethnicity but to their historical, religious, and liturgical connection to Syriac Christianity. The term Nasrani was derived from Semitic languages like Syriac (نصرانی) and Arabic (نصارى) and refers to Christians in general.
Historically, this community was organised as the Province of India of the Church of the East in the 8th century, served by Nestorian bishops and a local dynastic Archdeacon. In the 16th century, as the Church of the East declined, the overtures of the Portuguese padroado to bring the Saint Thomas Christians into the Catholic Church led to the first of several rifts in the community. The majority joined in formal communion with Rome, forming the Syro-Malabar Church, which is distinct from the Western Latin Church but is one of the Eastern Catholic Churches; they follow the East Syriac Liturgy of the historic Church of the East, traditionally attributed to Saints Addai and Mari which dates back to 3rd-century Edessa.[6] The remaining group resisted the Portuguese and entered into a new communion with the Syriac Orthodox Church, an Oriental Orthodox group, forming the Malankara Church; they inherited from the Syriac Orthodox Church the West Syriac Liturgy, which is traditionally attributed to Saint James and is an ancient rite of the Early Christian Church of Jerusalem.
Since that time, further splits have occurred, and the Saint Thomas Christians are now divided into several different Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and independent bodies, each with their own liturgies and traditions.[4]
Tradition of origin
Silk Road map showing ancient trade routes
See also: Acts of Thomas
According to tradition, Thomas the Apostle came to Muziris on the Kerala coast in AD 50 [13][14] which is in present-day Pattanam, Kerala.
The Cochin Jews are known to have existed in Kerala in the 1st century AD,[5][15] and it was possible for an Aramaic-speaking Jew, such as St. Thomas from Galilee, to make a trip to Kerala then.[16] The earliest known source connecting the Apostle to India is the Acts of Thomas, likely written in the early 3rd century, perhaps in Edessa.[17][18]
A number of 3rd and 4th century Roman writers also mention Thomas' trip to India, including Ambrose of Milan, Gregory of Nazianzus, Jerome, and Ephrem the Syrian, while Eusebius of Caesarea records that St. Clement of Alexandria's teacher Pantaenus from Alexandria visited a Christian community in India using the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew language in the 2nd century.[19][20][21]
The tradition of origin of the Christians in Kerala is found in a version of the Songs of Thomas or Thomma Parvam, written in 1601 and believed to be a summary of a larger and older work.[22][23] Thomas is described as arriving in or around Maliankara and founding Seven Churches, or Ezharapallikal: Kodungallur, Kollam, Niranam, Nilackal (Chayal), Gokkamangalam, Kottakkavu (Paravur), Paloor (Chattukulangara) and Thiruvithamcode Arappally (a "half church").[24][25][26] The Thomma Parvam also narrates the conversion of a few Jews, along with many natives, and the local King at Kodungallur by St Thomas. The Thomma Parvam further narrates St Thomas's mission in the rest of South India and his martyrdom at Mylapore in present-day Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[17][27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians
The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Nasrani or Malankara Nasrani or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethnoreligious community of Malayali Syriac Christians from Kerala, India, who trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.[4][5] The terms Syrian or Syriac relate not to their ethnicity but to their historical, religious, and liturgical connection to Syriac Christianity. The term Nasrani was derived from Semitic languages like Syriac (نصرانی) and Arabic (نصارى) and refers to Christians in general.
Historically, this community was organised as the Province of India of the Church of the East in the 8th century, served by Nestorian bishops and a local dynastic Archdeacon. In the 16th century, as the Church of the East declined, the overtures of the Portuguese padroado to bring the Saint Thomas Christians into the Catholic Church led to the first of several rifts in the community. The majority joined in formal communion with Rome, forming the Syro-Malabar Church, which is distinct from the Western Latin Church but is one of the Eastern Catholic Churches; they follow the East Syriac Liturgy of the historic Church of the East, traditionally attributed to Saints Addai and Mari which dates back to 3rd-century Edessa.[6] The remaining group resisted the Portuguese and entered into a new communion with the Syriac Orthodox Church, an Oriental Orthodox group, forming the Malankara Church; they inherited from the Syriac Orthodox Church the West Syriac Liturgy, which is traditionally attributed to Saint James and is an ancient rite of the Early Christian Church of Jerusalem.
Since that time, further splits have occurred, and the Saint Thomas Christians are now divided into several different Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and independent bodies, each with their own liturgies and traditions.[4]
Tradition of origin
Silk Road map showing ancient trade routes
See also: Acts of Thomas
According to tradition, Thomas the Apostle came to Muziris on the Kerala coast in AD 50 [13][14] which is in present-day Pattanam, Kerala.
The Cochin Jews are known to have existed in Kerala in the 1st century AD,[5][15] and it was possible for an Aramaic-speaking Jew, such as St. Thomas from Galilee, to make a trip to Kerala then.[16] The earliest known source connecting the Apostle to India is the Acts of Thomas, likely written in the early 3rd century, perhaps in Edessa.[17][18]
A number of 3rd and 4th century Roman writers also mention Thomas' trip to India, including Ambrose of Milan, Gregory of Nazianzus, Jerome, and Ephrem the Syrian, while Eusebius of Caesarea records that St. Clement of Alexandria's teacher Pantaenus from Alexandria visited a Christian community in India using the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew language in the 2nd century.[19][20][21]
The tradition of origin of the Christians in Kerala is found in a version of the Songs of Thomas or Thomma Parvam, written in 1601 and believed to be a summary of a larger and older work.[22][23] Thomas is described as arriving in or around Maliankara and founding Seven Churches, or Ezharapallikal: Kodungallur, Kollam, Niranam, Nilackal (Chayal), Gokkamangalam, Kottakkavu (Paravur), Paloor (Chattukulangara) and Thiruvithamcode Arappally (a "half church").[24][25][26] The Thomma Parvam also narrates the conversion of a few Jews, along with many natives, and the local King at Kodungallur by St Thomas. The Thomma Parvam further narrates St Thomas's mission in the rest of South India and his martyrdom at Mylapore in present-day Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[17][27