St. Thomas the Apostle Also Thomas Didymus; the Twin; Apostle of India;
Doubting Thomas Stabbed with a spear c.72 in India; San Thome Cathedral
stands over the place where he was buried in Mylapore, India
Commemorated July 3 Patronage: Saint Thomas is venerated as the Apostle
of India and Pakistan. against doubt, architects, blind people (due to
his occasional spiritual blindness), builders, carpenters, construction
workers, Ceylon East Indies, geometricians, India, masons, Pakistan,
people in doubt, Sri Lanka, stone masons, stonecutters, surveyors,
theologians
In art, Saint Thomas is generally shown as a young or middle-aged man
with a carpenter's rule. He may also be shown with a lance or,
occasionally a sword or dagger; touching Christ's wounded side; catching
the girdle dropped by the Virgin at her Assumption; or casting out the
devil from an Indian king's daughter. White says that Thomas is
portrayed as an elderly man, holding a lance or pierced by one; or
kneeling before Jesus; or with a T- square. Thomas Didymus, Apostle (RM)
1st century; declared apostle of India by Pope Paul VI in 1972; feast
day formerly on December 21. Thomas was probably born in Galilee to a
humble family, but there is no indication that he was a fisherman. He
was a Jew, but there is no account of how he became an apostle to ...