See ad 
ee 
1923. St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 171 
ylap 
‘‘When the Apostle’s body has been thus taken down! 
and placed in the chair, presentl y the sacred ministers perform 
the ceremonies proper to the feast. But, when the time of re- 
ceiving the Eucharist has come, the Patriarch arranges with 
the paten on the altar the sanctified hosts, bears them with 
ly as to appear, not dead, but quite alive. Indeed, receiving 
them in his outstretched palm, he keeps them there to give 
one to each: for the whole smarabty of the faithful, men and 
women, approach one after another, with much reverence 
and fear, and each receives in his mouth a host from the hand 
of the Apostle, * the Apostle giving it. But, if an infidel or a 
heretic or a person sullied by other stains of sin approaches 
him in order to receive Communion, the Apostle, while the 
less he presently repent and, touched with sorrow, receive 
eae ag from the Saint: else, he dies before he leaves the 
‘* Taliter ssh Jepoues & alts in cathedra apostoli corpore pee 
fate." The word deposito shows that the concha must have bee 
d. 

he idea of ese. the Saint in a chair may have been suggested b 
t that e member of the Greek poe is buried in com alas 
fi 
is still ‘ember He the case of a Bi 
“Inar account of the @ obsequies at Bers: of a Bishop 
of the Giaak Chure h (The Times, August 29, 1878), the Fag 
writes: ‘I was ushered into a small densely crowded ¢| and o 
; e no si 
‘Is he asleep?’ I whispered inguiringly to m nd. e is 
dead: that 3 the-jate pasts bogyr Ct. The ceole td Prove of 
Johann Sabihese, 2P- cit., p. 233. 
‘ id not the iat oe Sy rians receive se host or consecrated bread 
in their hands and communicate pate selve 
h receiving Communion ‘‘ meer will lay one hand in the sengiida 
forming a cross, and the priest ‘will lay the bread in his hands a 
n Gu akons u 
offering” CE. t Surina : Bois ee hae, Assyrian ustoms ant 
the Murder of Mar Shimun, London, Faith Press, pre through The 
be aa London, Febr. 25, 1922. p. 247. 
may ‘freely reje sag the miracle of the F ponod 8 ni mean dag 
closing his h nds, as long t rests on such p evidence as "A 
natural SR cated ‘chick aon > dares hardly sche is that of a stat 
which would have been made to Paneer da est t the device would 
have bhaen childish and the caversnoitelin blasphe 
