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St Thomas Christians of Malabar in the Códice Casanatense, about 1540

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St Thomas Christians of Malabar in the Códice Casanatense, about 1540

Place: Kerala
Date: 1540s

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Watercolour from the Portuguese Códice Casanatense (about 1540) showing a Christian man and woman of the Malabar Coast either side of a cross on a stepped base; the inscription calls them Malabarese made Christians by Saint Thomas. At the time Kerala's Christians were under East Syriac metropolitans sent from Mesopotamia.

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Wikimedia Commons (from the Códice Casanatense, Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome)

Anonymous Portuguese artist · Public domain (CC0 on Commons)

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