India. Kokkamamngalam syro-malabar catholic church, one of the 8 said to have been founded by saint thomas.Shrine Showing the broken thomas cross, which was said to bleed when a woman farmer cut it with her sycle. In the footsteps of saint thomas: visiting the eight churches founded by the apostle in kerala after he arrived in 52 ad

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