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Thomas (ST called Didymus or the twin)

ST., called Didymus, or the twin (this being the meaning of both forms of his name), one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ. He is presumed to have been a native of Galilee. He is distinguished in sacred history by his disbelief of the resurrection of his Master; on which Jesus vouchsafed to permit him to put his fingers into His wounds, and Thomas exclaimed, "My Lord and my God!" He is supposed to have suffered martyrdom in Coromandel, India, where there are still Christian churches which are called by his name. Efforts have been made by the Roman Catholic theologians of Spanish America to prove that the apostle visited the Western Continent and that St. Thomas was the per-, son who was afterward worshiped as Quetzalcoatl.