
18, St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 
By rHe Rev. H. Hosren, 8.J. 
Apparitions of St. Thomas and other legends.' 
Among the many surprises which the study of the legends 
about St. Thomas had in store not the least Mad se was 
the allusion to St. = Pata apparitions on the day of his feast. 
{ had not found at first any mention of this bscaek in Father 
Guy Tachard’s letter of 17112 and had shoved it aside as 
meaningless. However, I gave way to eighties when | 
poe aes that I could read the same thing in an ancient 
atin hvmn republished by Mer. Zaleski : sein the Analecta 
Bolland, Vol. 6, pp. 403- 
e some of the Malabar songs * (should we not say like 
the Malabar songs ?), this Latin hymn said nothing of King 
Mazdai, but appeared to Sbeves King Gondophares and his bro- 
ther Gad, both of whom became converts, at the town where 
St. Thomas lay buried. There, we were told, a wonder occurs 
which no other Saint performs. On the day of bee feast, with 
those fingers which touched Christ’s sacred side, St. Thomas 
gives to the worthy the Sacrament (of the Holy Eucharist) 
and refuses it to the unworthy. Moreover, he is so averse to 
unbelievers that, in the town where his body truly lies, there. 
lives neither heretic, nor Jew, nor pagan. What was this ? 
Had we not here the wonder alluded to by Father Tachard 
‘* No one is found nowadays who veges of the apparitions of 
St. eae en the day of his feast 
the reader judge of the hy mn for himself, we give 
of it ie a literal rendering. 
1. Holy Thomas, prince of the world, grant, I beseech 
thee, that I may not be confounded because of the weight of my 
offences : grant _ I may ever extol worthily thy dignity 
and piously invoke thy name 
2. Thou lovedst Christ’ so dearly that thou longedst to 


Parone Nec 
This S paper constitutes the first of a new series. The first series, 
published in The Catholic Herald of Initia, Calcutta, 1921-22, discussed 
oo a umber of | me 
n Janu pary Hebtonte 1921. Those assielan have to be recast, and 
published —_ phot so 
2 Lettres édifiantes , Paris, 1781, vol. 12, p, 22. 
3 Me. Zaleski, The pyaar St. Thomas, pp. 196-199. 
* Mer. Zaleski, The Saints of India, pp. 129-137. 


