Feast Day

July 3

The Church celebrates Thomas the Apostle on July 3.

Thomas the Apostle

Thomas the Apostle

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Thomas — called 'Doubting Thomas' for demanding to touch Christ's wounds before he would believe — answered with the clearest declaration of Christ's divinity in the Gospels: 'My Lord and my God!' He carried the Gospel further east than any other Apostle, founding churches in Mesopotamia and, by tradition, India, where he was martyred around AD 72.