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? 164 Nestorian creed, in Ceylon, in Malabar, and at Caliana (north of Bombay) before the middle of the 6th century, and even then St. Thomas, the reputed apostle of Persia, may have been their special saint. 1 2. Rev. Yeats Brown, after visiting Travancore state, wrote: The oldest Christian site, not only in Travancore, but per- haps in the world, is the Syro-Malankaran, whose adher- ents claim that St. Thomas himself baptised the first of them, when he landed on this coast in 59 A. D. He called them Nazarenes, for the term Christians had not yet come into use. (Acts of the Apostles 11: 26) 2 3. Archbishop Lord Lang (former Archbishop of Canterbury), in a broadcast speech, said: The tradition that St. Thomas went to India has never been disproved, and without doubt Christianity in India has ancient roots. 3 H. G. Rawlinson C. I. E. writes in his book ‘India, A Short Cultural History’ (p. 92 to 93): One of the Indo-Parthian or Saka princes of Taxila, known 1. Ency. Britt. edition 14: ‘St. Thomas. ’ 2. The Spectator, No. 5636, p. 1124, London. 3. Great Britain and the East, Dec. 3, 1936. London.