An article from the Catholic Counter-Reformation of the 21st Century, but interesting nonetheless and something that should be verified: THE APOSTLE SAINT THOMAS FOUNDED THE CHURCH IN CHINA. (The original French article.)

He set off again, with in his heart not only the memory of the Virgin Mary who had just been glorified in Her Body, but Her very testimony, gathered by St John and put in writing by St. Luke. It already existed, if we believe the hypothesis of Pierre Perrier, in the form of a written scroll: “The Gospel of the Childhood”, sfar d’talioutha, upon which the Apostle would not cease to meditate during his long peregrinations and which he would preach all the way to China! This work of reconstruction of the passage from the oral tradition to the written Gospels, far off the beaten track of modern and Modernist exegesis (cf. Évangiles de l’oral à l’écrit et Les colliers évangéliques, éditions du Jubilé, 2003) agree with what our Father, the Abbé de Nantes, wrote a few years ago on “the Gospel of the Virgin”, the first and secret source of all the others.

An inspired text that has been lost to us? How many such texts have there been?

The same evidence and interpretation is given at this Catholic apologetics website (?).


The book, of which the CRC article is a summary, is Thomas fonde l'Eglise en Chine (65-68 après Jésus-Christ) by Pierre Perrier and Walter Xavier. (Amazon.fr)

Christianisme en Chine : le livre qui change tout - France Catholique
Conférence de Pierre Perrier sur "Thomas fonde l’Eglise en Chine "
Diocèse de Lyon :: Thomas fonde l'Eglise en Chine (Lyon) (Le site des Chinois de Lyon)
L'apôtre Thomas en Chine ! Association EEChO

This post Saint Thomas apôtre jusqu'en Chine at this blog gives the link to the following interview with the author Pierre Perrier -- Saint Thomas apôtre jusqu'en Chine (part 1; parts 2 and 3).