Specification: devotees have long believed that it was brought to India by St. Thomas.
Archeological Details: It is painted on a light woodenplank about a foot and half a square. The picture is known is some quarters as the Scalpular of St.St. Thomas.
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Location: Inside the St. Thomas Mount Church
Importance : This is traditionally acknowledged to be one of the seven portraits painted by St.Luke the Evangelist.

  
   

Section Index:

1. This was found in the San Thome Cathedral opposite the present
north-west verandha.
2.
3. Fragment of a Tamil Inscription
4.
5. A Sanskrit Inscription
6. A Stone Inscription
7.
8.
9.
10. A Benefactor of the Old Cathedral
11. Roman gold and silver coins
12. Coins of King Gondophares
13. Roman silver coins of 1st Century

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This was found in the San Thome Cathedral opposite the present north-west verandha.


Fragment of a Tamil Inscription

 

 


A Sanskrit Inscription

 

A Stone Inscription

 

 

A Benefactor of the Old Cathedral

Roman gold and silver coins unearthed around the Palayur-Kodungallur-Parur belt at Eyyal (1945) and Valuvally (1984) Shown above are some gold coins of Tiberius Caesar, Nero and from these collections.

Coins of King Gondophares discovered in the 19th century, in the North - western parts of India.

Roman silver coins of 1st Century B.C / A.D from Eyyal between Kodungallur and Palayur.
  

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