Thomas

Thomas is a somewhat shadowy figure, known to us primarily in the Gospel of John as, "The Doubter." According to the Gospel of Mark, he was the eighth to be called by Jesus to be a disciple. Tradition says that he went to India as a missionary where he erected a church with his own hands, and that he was put to death by a spear. His work as a carpenter caused him to become the patron saint of architects, masons and stonecutters. His symbol is a carpenter’s square by which he lived and a spear by which he died.

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