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The miraculous cross of Saint Thomas at Mylapore, engraving, 1667

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The miraculous cross of Saint Thomas at Mylapore, engraving, 1667

Place: Chennai
Date: 1667

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Plate from Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata (1667) showing the "miraculous cross of Saint Thomas the Apostle at Meliapore in India": the carved cross with its encircling inscription, venerated by a Jesuit priest and Indian Christians before an altar.

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Source

Kircher, China monumentis ... illustrata (Amsterdam, 1667), via Internet Archive

Athanasius Kircher · Public domain (published 1667).

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