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Saint Thomas the Apostle in a green and gold cloak, his hand raised, painted by El Greco and his workshop about 1608 to 1614

Saint Thomas the Apostle

The apostle who doubted, then cried “My Lord and my God!” when shown the wounds

Patron of
the East Indies
Western calendar
3 July
Orthodox calendar
6 October (19 October on the old calendar)

Thomas, called Didymus, the twin, is the apostle who said "Let us also go, that we may die with him" when Jesus turned back toward Judea, and who would not believe the others until he could put his finger into the print of the nails. Eight days later the Lord showed him his wounds, and Thomas gave the clearest confession of Christ's divinity in the Scriptures: "My Lord and my God!" Tradition carries him east to the Persians and to India, where the St. Thomas Christians of the Malabar coast trace their faith to him, and remembers him as a martyr pierced with spears.

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