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Hi, welcome to Catholic Saints.

My name is Mary McGeehan, and I am joined with Dr. Ben Acres chief content officer here at the

Gus Institute. Thanks for joining. We are going to discuss St. Thomas the Apostle and

this series is really to learn about our Saints in Heaven, look to them for

inspiration for us in our lives today. So excited to dive in to St. Thomas the Apostle.

St. Thomas is one of the 12 Apost today. So excited to dive in to St. Thomas the Apostle. St. Thomas is one of the 12

apostles. So these men just stand out as we're looking at in the history of the church.

And what's interesting about St. Thomas is he's actually one of the few apostles that we have

words from as we look at the gospel. Yes. So some of the apostles we don't

have a single word from. Yes. They're in the scenes. Remember to be an apostle, we look at

the actual the apostles when Judas has denied our Lord, betrayed our Lord, and then commit

suicide. They are looking for another apostle to take his place and they say he has to

been with us from the beginning, from the baptism of John at the Jordan, all the way to having

seen him risen from the dead. So this is like one of the qualifications of an apostle is to

know Jesus from the beginning and see him risen from the dead.

Thomas is one of those named apostles called by Christ, named, and we know him as Thomas

the Apostle.

It's actually Matthew Mark and Luke just give his name as Thomas.

It's John's Gospel that adds Thomas the twin, or Didymus, in Greek, is twin, so that's what

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