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Saint Thomas the Apostle
Called Didymus, the Twin
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Life and witness
John’s Gospel records Thomas’s willingness to accompany Jesus toward danger, his question about the way, and his encounter with the risen Lord (John 11:16; 14:5; 20:24–29). The Resurrection account culminates in confession, not permanent unbelief. His traditional epithet Didymus means Twin.
Historical setting
John’s Gospel records Thomas’s willingness to accompany Jesus toward danger, his question about the way, and his encounter with the risen Lord (John 11:16; 14:5; 20:24–29). The Resurrection account culminates in confession, not permanent unbelief. His traditional epithet Didymus means Twin.
Legacy and remembrance
Ancient Christian traditions associate Thomas with the spread of Christianity toward the East, especially India. The New Testament does not narrate those journeys or his death. His selected fixed feast is October 6; Thomas Sunday, the Sunday after Pascha, is a separate movable commemoration.
More about the life
The individual church biography emphasizes the confession that follows Thomas’s encounter with the risen Christ, rather than leaving him permanently identified with doubt. It explicitly labels the founding of churches in eastern regions, including India, as Church tradition. Its account of imprisonment and death during that mission belongs to the same received narrative. A fuller biography can include that testimony while preserving the distinction between John’s Gospel and the later mission stories. His remembrance therefore concerns a witness who comes to confess Christ, not a caricature of unbelief.
Quotes
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Scripture · King James Version
My Lord and my God.
Canonical Scripture · John 20:28 (Thomas to the risen Christ)
Context and edition
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King James Version (1611), historical English edition.
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My Lord and my God.
Scripture · King James Version
Let us also go, that we may die with him.
Canonical Scripture · John 11:16 (Thomas to the disciples)
Context and edition
Scriptural speech or canonical writing identified by the reference; not a separate collection of sayings authored by this saint.
King James Version (1611), historical English edition.
King James Version (1611); not a new website-authored English translation.
Let us also go, that we may die with him.
Readings
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John 20:26-27 (Jesus appears to Thomas)
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
English: cited historical translation. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian: LogosPharos translations through English, not direct translations from ancient Greek.
Editorial context
Jesus comes to the disciples on the eighth day while Thomas is present, offers him his hands and side, and calls him to believe. Thomas's confession of faith follows immediately and is printed with the quotations below.
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Source text and edition
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
King James Version, the English translation cited here. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian below are relay translations through this English text, not direct translations from the Greek.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2020&version=KJV
Words recorded in the sources
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My Lord and my God.
John 20:28 (Thomas to the risen Christ)
English: cited historical translation. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian: LogosPharos translations through English, not direct translations from ancient Greek.
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Source text and edition
My Lord and my God.
King James Version, the English translation cited here. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian below are relay translations through this English text, not direct translations from the Greek.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2020&version=KJV
Let us also go, that we may die with him.
John 11:16 (Thomas to the disciples)
English: cited historical translation. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian: LogosPharos translations through English, not direct translations from ancient Greek.
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Source text and edition
Let us also go, that we may die with him.
King James Version, the English translation cited here. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian below are relay translations through this English text, not direct translations from the Greek.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2011&version=KJV
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Writings and works
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Church life and commemoration
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Miracles and testimony
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Scriptural account
Acts 5:12–16
Acts reports signs and healings through the apostles collectively. This passage does not identify which individual apostle performed each event; it is not evidence for a separate personal miracle attributed to this apostle.
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Church sources
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/06/30/101711-synaxis-of-the-holy-glorious-and-all-praised-twelve-apostles
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/10/06/102885-holy-glorious-apostle-thomas