Apostles

THE APOSTLES : M.M.NINAN
Saint Jerome would have that Demetric, Bishop of Alexandria, sent to him India, at the request of
legates of that nation. In India Pantaenus that Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostles, had
preached the advent of Lord Jesus according to the Gospel of Matthew, and on his return to
Alexandria he brought this with him written in Hebrew characters..
Kalyan
The recent studies of Perumalil and Moraes hold that the Bombay region on the Konkan coast, a
region which have been known after the ancient town Kalyan, was the field of Saint Bartholomew
the Apostle
The town of Kalyan, was an ancient port and it is supposed to be the Kalliana, the traveler Cosmas
Indicopleuustes visited in the 6th century as he reports in his
According to Pseudo- Sophronius ( 7th century) Saint Bartholomew preached to the Felix
Perumalil interprets the CiteriorIndia
It thus appears that Barthalomew travelled in the opposite direction to Philip towards India.