1923 ] St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 163 
Indies, called John, came to Constantinople in the 4th year of 
Callixtus’ Pontificate, to receive the pallium, and that he came 
thence to Rome with the Pope’s legates. There, before the 
Pope and the Cardinals, he narrated among other things that 
he resided in the Church of India where the body of St. 
Thomas was kept entire (i/laeswm) and standing, his clothes 
also being intact (vestibus etiam illaesis) ; and that every year. 
on his feast, the Patriarch, kneeling before him with the 
Bishops. offers the consecrated hosts, with which St. Thomas 
himself communicates with his own hand one by one those of 
the people who approach; but, if an unbeliever or one guilty 
of sin approaches, he withdraws and closes his hand. Such is 
the story of that Bishop. 
‘And, though we look upon stories (narratiunculas) of the 
kind with no less caution and scruple than Le Quien, yet we have 
read this very thing, with a few changes, quoted with approval, 
not only by Monk Helinand, St. Antoninus, Bellovacensis, 
Gesner and Nauclerus, whom Stapleton (writing about St 
Thomas at p. 942 of his volume 4) agrees with, but also by the 
Author of the Synchronon, i.e. Odo, Abbot of St. Remy’s, in 
a letter to Count Thomas, among the Vetera Analecta of 
Mabillon (p. 464 of the Paris edition of Montalant, 1723). In 
this letter he writes to Thomas ‘what I saw and heard (says 
he) at the Roman Court this present year (Mabillon thinks he 
wrote about 1135), to wit, on the Friday after the solemnity 
of Ascension Sunday,’ Then he recounts that a certain Arch- 
bishop (which I think more correct than what is reported by 



1 This last sentence must be Abbot Odo’s. a do not find it at the 
end of Document 2 to be mentioned and translated presently. 
