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Thomas of Cana
Thomas of Cana is a figure in the history and traditions of the Saint Thomas Christian community of Kerala, India. He is said to have led a migration of Syriac Christians from the Middle East to India sometime between the 4th and the 9th century; this may reflect a historical migration that strengthened the ties between the Indian church and the Church of the East. The Thomas of Cana story also factors into traditions of the divide of the community into Northist and Southist factions; the Southists or Knanaya sometimes claim descent from Thomas of Cana and his followers.
==History==
Written accounts of Thomas of Cana date to the India's Portuguese period.〔Baum & Winkler, p. 53.〕 Different versions give different dates for the events; some place them in 345; others as late as the 9th century.〔〔Vadakkekara, p. 239.〕 The meaning of the ''Cana'' epithet is unclear; it may refer to the town of Cana or the land of Canaan in the Bible,〔Swiderski 1988b, pp. 55–56.〕 or it may be a corruption of a Syriac term for merchant (''Knāyil'' in Malayam).〔Neill, p. 42.〕 However, scholar Richard M. Swiderski states that none of these etymologies are convincing.〔
In most accounts, Thomas is said to have been a Syrian merchant, distinct from Thomas the Apostle, who preceded him in evangelizing in India. According to the traditions, Thomas of Cana led a group of 72 families, as well as clergymen, to the Malabar coast. There they met and supplemented the Saint Thomas Christians, who had been evangelized by Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. Copper plates referring to this story exist, but are of a substantially later date.〔
Though some scholars doubt the veracity of the Thomas of Cana tradition, others suggest it may reflect a historical migration of East Syrian Christians to India. This may have been the era in which the region's relationship with the Church of the East developed. Stephen Neill suggests that East Syrian Christians may have come to India specifically because there was already an established Christian community, to whom they imparted East Syrian traditions.〔Neill, pp. 42–43.〕
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