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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 3rd of July WELCOME! ST THOMAS, APOSTLE - FROM THE GOLDEN LEGEND  Saint Thomas in India  From the 13th century " Golden Legend " by  Bl. Jacopo de Voragine , Archbishop of Genoa, 1275. Originally in Latin, it was the most widely read book (after the Bible) during the late Middle Ages: Here beginneth the Life of  Saint Thomas the Apostle . THE MEANING OF HIS NAME Thomas is as much to say as abysm or double, which in Greek is said  didimus ; or else Thomas is said of  Thomos , which is said division or parting. He was abysm or swallow because he deserved to pierce the deepness of divinity, when at his interrogation Jesus Christ answered to him:  Ego sum via, veritas et vita : I am the way, truth, and life. He is said  double  because he knew Christ in his resurrection in double wise more than other knew, for they knew him but only in seeing, but Thomas knew him both seeing and feelin...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 3rd of July WELCOME! SAINT THOMAS, APOSTLE Thomas the Apostle, also called the Twin, was a Galilean. After he had received the Holy Spirit, he travelled through many provinces, preaching the Gospel of Christ. He transmitted the precepts of the Christian faith and life to the Parthians, Medes, Persians, Hyrcanians, and Bactrians. He finally went to India and instructed the inhabitants in the Christian religion. HE FINALLY WENT TO INDIA Up to the last, by the holiness of his life and teaching, and by the greatness of the miracles which he wrought, he excited the admiration of all men, and led them to the love of Jesus Christ. The king of the nation, a worshipper of idols, was furiously angry; by whose orders he was condemned to be pierced by javelins, and the crown of martyrdom decorated the glory of his apostolate at Calamina.  Text from: Breviary, 1964 PRAYER: Almighty Father, as we honour Thomas the apostle, let us alwa...