Thomas (St.)
.Patron saint of architects. The tradition is that Gondofʹorus, king of the Indies, gave him a large sum of money to build a palace. St. Thomas spent it on the poor, “thus erecting a superb palace in heaven.”
Christians of St. Thomas. In the southern parts of Malʹabar there were some 200,000 persons who called themselves “Christians of St. Thomas” when Gama discovered India. They had been 1,300 years under the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Babylon, who appointed their materene (archbishop). When Gama arrived the head of the Malabar Christians was Jacob, who styled himself “Metropolitan of India and China.” In 1625 a stone was found near Siganfu with a cross on it, and containing a list of the materenes of India and China.
Sir Thomas. The dogmatical prating squire in Crabbe’s Borough (letter x.).
