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Go Go Thomas! (DVD)

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Please try again later. My toddler loves this cd. She asks, "Go go Thomas? We sing along together. I enjoy the more upbeat songs, like the title song and Day of the Diesels, but the mellow songs like "Song for Gordon" and "Working Together" are enjoyable, too. I'm also glad that the second song on the album is the theme song from the show. My toddler likes that, too.

I tend to skip over only about 2 songs, but they just aren't to my tastes. Other people might enjoy them, and so would my toddler. Overall, a good album for car rides with toddlers. My grandson loves Thomas and Friends. The music is catchy and he loves listening to it. I used it on a video of the pictures of his birthday and it worked well with the Thomas theme.

One person found this helpful. Took our grandson to Nashville for a day out with Thomas and plan on making a picture dvd with this song and roll along. He loves anything Thomas and he loves all of the songs.

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If your child loves Thomas they will already know these songs. My son loves this song. He can listen to it over and over and over. My son heard this song on a Thomas movie and requested that I purchase it.

I was able to save it to my computer easily, and then transfer it to his Leappad. Now he can listen to this song whenever he likes. A pontiff assigned his feast day and a king and a queen erected his shrine. The Thomas traditions became embodied in Syriac liturgy, thus they were universally credited by the Christian community there.

There is a legend that Thomas had met the biblical Magi on his way to India.

An early 3rd-century Syriac work known as the Acts of Thomas [2] connects the apostle's Indian ministry with two kings, one in the north and the other in the south. According to one of the legends in the Acts , Thomas was at first reluctant to accept this mission, but the Lord appeared to him in a night vision and said,. Go away to India and proclaim the Word, for my grace shall be with you.

According to the Acts of Thomas, the apostle's ministry resulted in many conversions throughout the kingdom, including the king and his brother. Remains of some of his buildings, influenced by Greek architecture, indicate that he was a great builder. According to the legend, Thomas was a skilled carpenter and was bidden to build a palace for the king. However, the Apostle decided to teach the king a lesson by devoting the royal grant to acts of charity and thereby laying up treasure for the heavenly abode. Although little is known of the immediate growth of the church, Bar-Daisan — reports that in his time there were Christian tribes in India which claimed to have been converted by Thomas and to have books and relics to prove it.

Aside from a small remnant of the Church of the East in Kurdistan , the only other church to maintain a distinctive identity is the Saint Thomas Christian congregations along the Kerala in southwest India. According to the most ancient tradition of this church, Thomas evangelized this area and then crossed to the Coromandel Coast of southeast India, where, after carrying out a second mission, he died at Chennai. Throughout the period under review, the church in India was under the jurisdiction of Edessa , which was then under the Mesopotamian patriarchate at Seleucia-Ctesiphon and later at Baghdad and Mosul.

Smith says, "It must be admitted that a personal visit of the Apostle Thomas to South India was easily feasible in the traditional belief that he came by way of Socotra , where an ancient Christian settlement undoubtedly existed. I am now satisfied that the Christian church of South India is extremely ancient Thomas is believed to have left northwest India when invasion threatened and traveled by vessel to the Malabar Coast , possibly visiting southeast Arabia and Socotra en route, and landing at the former flourishing port of Muziris modern-day North Paravur and Kodungalloor [30] c.

From there he is said to have preached the gospel throughout the Malabar coast. The various churches he founded were located mainly on the Periyar River and its tributaries and along the coast, where there were Jewish colonies. In accordance with apostolic custom, Thomas ordained teachers and leaders or elders, who were reported to be the earliest ministry of the Malabar Church. Thomas Mount , in Chennai , in 72 A. This is the earliest known record of his martyrdom. The records of Barbosa from early 16th century inform that the tomb was then maintained by a Muslim who kept a lamp burning there.

Thomas Mount has been a revered site by Hindus, Muslims and Christians since at least the 16th century.

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According to Kurt E. According to the Austrian missionary and writer, F. Martin Dobrizhoffer , who spoke with the warlord of the tribe:. The Warlord Cacique said to me: Dobrizhoffer believed that it was "almost impossible" for that legend to be truthful, although "with the guidance of the Almighty Power of God", there was a chance for Thomas the Apostle to have arrived in Paraguayan lands. Antonio Ruiz de Montoya recollected the same oral traditions from the Paraguayan tribes.

In a very famous book he wrote:. The paraguayan tribes they have this very curious tradition. Despite all these legends and traditions, no credible evidence exists about Saint Thomas the Apostle and his alleged journey to Paraguay and neighboring lands. This is mentioned by Franz Wisner von Morgenstern, an Austro-Hungarian engineer who served in the Paraguayan armies prior and during the Paraguayan War. Dictator Francia sent his finest experts to inspect those stones, and they concluded that the letters carved in those stones were Hebrew -like symbols, but they couldn't translate them nor figure out the exact date when those letters were carved.

Traditional accounts say that the Apostle Thomas preached not only in Kerala but also in other parts of Southern India — and a few relics are still kept at San Thome Basilica in Chennai, Mylapore, India. The first date has been rejected as he was in China at the time, but the second date is generally accepted. Il Milione, the book he dictated on his return to Europe, was on its publication condemned by the Church as a collection of impious and improbable traveller's tales.

It became very popular reading in medieval Europe and inspired Spanish and Portuguese sailors to seek out the fabulous and possibly Christian India described in it. According to tradition, in AD, the greater portion of relics of the Apostle Thomas are said to have been sent by an Indian king and brought from Mylapore to the city of Edessa, Mesopotamia , on which occasion his Syriac Acts were written. The Indian king is named as "Mazdai" in Syriac sources, "Misdeos" and "Misdeus" in Greek and Latin sources respectively, which has been connected to the "Bazdeo" on the Kushan coinage of Vasudeva I , the transition between "M" and "B" being a current one in Classical sources for Indian names.

In the 4th century, the martyrium erected over his burial place brought pilgrims to Edessa. In the s, Egeria described her visit in a letter she sent to her community of nuns at home Itineraria Egeriae: We arrived at Edessa in the Name of Christ our God, and, on our arrival, we straightway repaired to the church and memorial of saint Thomas. There, according to custom, prayers were made and the other things that were customary in the holy places were done; we read also some things concerning saint Thomas himself.

The church there is very great, very beautiful and of new construction, well worthy to be the house of God, and as there was much that I desired to see, it was necessary for me to make a three days' stay there. According to Saint Theodoret of Cyrrhus , the bones of Saint Thomas were transferred by Cyrus, Bishop of Edessa, from the martyrium outside of Edessa to a church in the south-west corner of the city on 22 August In , the Magister militum per Orientem Anatolius donated a silver coffin to hold the relics.

He is the first traveller who mentions Syrian Christians in Malabar, in his book Christian Topography.

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He mentions that in the town of "Kalliana" Quilon or Kollam there was a bishop who had been consecrated in Persia. In , the city was conquered by the Zengids and the shrine destroyed. After a short stay on the Greek island of Chios , [ clarification needed ] on 6 September , the relics were transported to the West, and now rest in the Cathedral of St. Thomas the Apostle in Ortona , Italy. Ortona's three galleys reached the island of Chios in , led by General Leone Acciaiuoli.

Chios was considered the island where Saint Thomas, after the martyrdom in India, had been buried. A portion fought around the Peloponnese and the Aegean islands, the other in the sea lapping at the then Syrian coast. The three galleys of Ortona moved on the second front of the war and reached the island of Chios. The tale is provided by Giambattista De Lectis, physician and writer of the 16th century of Ortona.

After the looting, the navarca Ortona Leone went to pray in the main church of the island of Chios and was drawn to a chapel adorned and resplendent with lights. An elderly priest, through an interpreter informed him that in that oratory was venerated the Body of Saint Thomas the Apostle. Lion, filled with an unusual sweetness, gathered in deep prayer. At that moment a light hand twice invited him to come closer.

The navarca Leone reached out and took a bone from the largest hole of the tombstone, on which were carved the Greek letters and a halo depicted a bishop from the waist up. He was the confirmation of what he had said the old priest and that you are indeed in the presence of the Apostle's body.

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He went back on the galley and planned the theft for the next night, along with fellow Ruggiero Grogno. They lifted the heavy gravestone and watched the underlying relics. The wrapped in snow-white cloths them laid in a wooden box stored at Ortona to the looting of and brought them aboard the galley. Lion, then, along with other comrades, he returned again in the church, took the tombstone and took her away.

Just the Chinardo admiral was aware of the precious cargo moved all the sailors of the Muslim faith on other ships and ordered him to take the route to Ortona. He landed at the port of Ortona 6 September According to the story of De Lectis, he was informed the abbot Jacopo responsible for Ortona Church, which predispose full provision for hospitality felt and shared by all the people.

Since then the body of the apostle and the gravestone are preserved in the crypt of the Basilica. In a parchment written in Bari by the court under John Peacock contracts, the presence of five witnesses, preserved in Ortona at the Diocesan Library, confirming the veracity of that event, reported, as mentioned, by Giambattista De Lectis, physician and writer Ortona of the 16th century.

The relics resisted both the Saracen looting of , that the destruction of the Nazis in the famous battle of Ortona, fought in late December The basilica was blown up because his civic eras tower lookout point considered by the allies, who were coming by sea from San Vito Chietino. The relics, together with the treasure of Saint Thomas, were intended, according to the command of the Germans, to be sold; but the monks tumularono inside the bell tower, the only surviving part of the semi-ruined church.

Tombstone of Thomas, brought to Ortona from Chios along with the relics of the Apostle, is currently preserved in the crypt of St Thomas Basilica, behind the altar. The urn containing the bones instead is placed under the altar. It is the cover of a fake coffin, fairly widespread burial form in the early Christian world, as the top of a tomb of less expensive material. The plaque has an inscription and a bas-relief that refer, in many respects, to the Syro-Mesopotamian. Tombstone Thomas the Apostle on inclusion can be read, in Greek characters uncial, the expression 'osios thomas, that Saint Thomas.

It can be dated from the point of view palaeographic and lexical to the 3rd—5th century, a time when the term osios is still used as a synonym of aghios in that holy is he that is in the grace of God and is inserted in the Church: In the particular case of Saint Thomas' plaque, then, the word osios can easily be the translation of the word Syriac mar Lord , attributed in the ancient world, but also to the present day, is a saint to be a bishop. The finger bones of Saint Thomas were discovered during restoration work at the Church of Saint Thomas in Mosul , Iraq in , [51] and were housed there until the Fall of Mosul , after which the relics were transferred to the Monastery of Saint Matthew on 17 June A number of early Christian writings written during centuries immediately following the first Ecumenical Council of mention Thomas' mission.

The two centuries that lapsed between the life of the apostle and the recording of this work cast doubt on their authenticity. According to the text, following the Ascension , the Apostles cast lots as to where each should go and Thomas drew India. A man named Habban recruited or enslaved Thomas to work as a builder and architect, on behalf of king Gondophares , the ruler of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom.

The journey to India is described in detail. After a long period working at the royal court at ancient Taxila , Thomas ordained leaders for a church there. He left in a chariot for a kingdom named Mazdai possibly Muziris , in South India. The king, Misdeus or Mizdeos , was infuriated when Thomas converted the queen Tertia, the king's son Juzanes, sister-in-law princess Mygdonia and her friend Markia.

Misdeus led Saint Thomas outside the city and ordered four soldiers to take him to the nearby hill, where the soldiers speared Thomas and killed him. After Thomas' death, Syphorus was elected the first presbyter of Mazdai by the surviving converts, while Juzanes was the first deacon. Mygdonia , a province of Mesopotamia may suggest Greek descent or or cultural influences. Syrian [59] "After the death of the Apostles there were Guides and Rulers in the Churches… They again at their deaths also committed and delivered to their disciples after them everything which they had received from the Apostles; … also what Judas Thomas had written from India".

India and all its own countries, and those bordering on it, even to the farther sea, received the Apostle's hand of Priesthood from Judas Thomas, who was Guide and Ruler in the Church which he built and ministered there". In what follows "the whole Persia of the Assyrians and Medes, and of the countries round about Babylon… even to the borders of the Indians and even to the country of Gog and Magog " are said to have received the Apostles' Hand of Priesthood from Aggaeus the disciple of Addaeus [60].

Origen 's original work has been lost, but his statement about Parthia falling to Thomas has been preserved by Eusebius. Syrian Biographical [65] Many devotional hymns composed by St.

Ephraem bear witness to the Edessan Church's strong conviction concerning St. Also "The merchant brought the bones" to Edessa. Another hymn eulogizing Saint Thomas reads "The bones the merchant hath brought". In yet another hymn Ephrem speaks of the mission of Thomas: Gregory of Nazianzus was born AD , consecrated a bishop by his friend St. Basil ; in his father, the Bishop of Nazianzus, induced him to share his charge. In the people of Constantinople called him to be their bishop.

By the Orthodox Church he is emphatically called "the Theologian".

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Saint Ambrose was thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Latin Classics, and had a good deal of information on India and Indians. Saint Gregory of Tours died Saint Gregory's testimony: His holy remains corpus , after a long interval of time, were removed to the city of Edessa in Syria and there interred.

In that part of India where they first rested, stand a monastery and a church of striking dimensions, elaborately adorned and designed. This Theodore, who had been to the place, narrated to us. Let none read the gospel according to Thomas, for it is the work, not of one of the twelve apostles, but of one of Mani's three wicked disciples. In the first two centuries of the Christian era, a number of writings were circulated. It is unclear now why Thomas was seen as an authority for doctrine, although this belief is documented in Gnostic groups as early as the Pistis Sophia.

In that Gnostic work, Mary Magdalene one of the disciples says:. Now at this time, my Lord, hear, so that I speak openly, for thou hast said to us "He who has ears to hear, let him hear: It is this which thy light-power once prophesied through Moses: The three witnesses are Philip and Thomas and Matthew".

An early, non-Gnostic tradition may lie behind this statement, which also emphasizes the primacy of the Gospel of Matthew in its Aramaic form, over the other canonical three. Besides the Acts of Thomas there was a widely circulated Infancy Gospel of Thomas probably written in the later 2nd century, and probably also in Syria , which relates the miraculous events and prodigies of Jesus' boyhood.

This is the document which tells for the first time the familiar legend of the twelve sparrows which Jesus, at the age of five, fashioned from clay on the Sabbath day, which took wing and flew away. The earliest manuscript of this work is a 6th-century one in Syriac. This gospel was first referred to by Irenaeus ; Ron Cameron notes: Because of the complexities of the manuscript tradition, however, there is no certainty as to when the stories of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas began to be written down.

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