these thomasine christians and destroyed them, burnt them. the history of early christianity in india, recorded on palm leaf manuscript, was put to the flame. much of the documents of the saint thomas christians were burnt at the time, so they were all destroyed. a team of archivists are hunting down the few surviving palm leaf records. it s an all-india phenomena, palm leaf as writing material because that was what was available readily in kerala, unlike in the middle east, where you would have parchments or scrolls and paper. many of their inscriptions are written in syriac, the language of many early christians, close to aramaic, the language spoken by jesus and
arrived in india with a different christianity. initially, they were fascinated by the fact that there were christians here, but then you slowly they realized these christians worship in a different language. they seemed to have believed in astrology and reincarnation. they had carvings of elephants and dancing girls on their crosses. this didn t seem like christianity at all. the problem with them is they weren t catholics, and they didn t look proper to the portuguese. in 1599, the catholic church declared the saint thomas christians heretics. they collected up all the documents that they had from these thomasine christians and destroyed them, burnt them. the history of early christianity in india, recorded
in 1498, the portuguese arrived in india with a different christianity. initially, they were fascinated by the fact that there were christians here. but then slowly they realized, these christians worship in a different language. they seemed to have believed in astrology and reincarnation. they had carvings of elephants and dancing girls on their crosses. this didn t seem like christianity at all. t the problem with them is they weren t catholics and they didn t look proper to the portuguese. in 1599, the catholic church declared the st. thomas christians heretics. they collected up all the documents they had from these thomasine christians and destroyed them. burnt them. the history of early christianity in india recorded
in 1498, the portuguese arrived in india with a different christianity. initially, they were fascinated by the fact that there were christians here. but then slowly they realized these christians worshipped in a different language. they seemed to have believed astrology and reincarnation. they had carvings of elephants and dancing girls on their crosses. this didn t seem like christianity at all. the problem with them is they weren t catholics. and they didn t look proper to the portuguese. in 1599 the catholic church declared the st. thomas christians heretics. they collected up all the documents they had from these thomasine christians and destroyed them, burnt them.