India. Kokkamamngalam syro-malabar catholic church, one of the 8 said to have been founded by saint thomas. Altar shows wooden model of ship in which he arrived. 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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