St Thomas of India
KENNET, Charles Egbert.
S. Thomas, the Apostle of India; an Enquiry into the Evidence for his Mission to this Country … Madras, Addison & Mount, 1882.
8vo, pp. [2], 32; a very good copy in the original green cloth, front cover lettered gilt, brown glazed endpapers; ownership inscription to title of Annabel Jackson, pencil notes in a different hand to endpaper.
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S. Thomas, the Apostle of India; an Enquiry into the Evidence for his Mission to this Country …
Second edition, revised, very rare, of a brief work summarizing evidence in favour of the tradition that St Thomas the Apostle brought Christianity to Kerala from AD 52 until his martyrdom at Myrlapore in AD 72. At the end is ‘A list of books relating to the Christians of S. Thomas, or the Syrian Church of Malabar’.
Kennett had first published his study in 1877; demand having exhausted in the small edition, he issued a second edition with ‘a few additions of some historical value’. A further edition followed in 1892.
Very rare. The first edition of 1877 is recorded at Bodley only; this second edition is at Bodley, Yale and Michigan State. A further edition followed in 1892.