"We find all these and much more about the cross in contemporary writers, but none of them mentions a similar arched cross as existing in Malabar, although another cross and inscription of the kind in Malabar or elsewhere would most naturally have been brought to the notice of the Malabar and Portuguese Christians in general, and visited, observed, studied, sketched and described in their letters and books by contemporary writers. In the present state of my knowledge therefore I cannot but come to the conclusion that there was not even a single Pahlavi-inscribed arched cross seen in Malabar in or about 1547, the year of the discovery of the mount cross, and that the numerous crosses mentioned by Gouvea as existing in Malabar in 1599 were all imitations of miraculous Mount cross. These were not more than 53 years old when Gouvea heard in 1599 that they had been set up by Saint. Thomas himself or the first Christians of the first century."
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Joseph, T.K (1929). Malabar Christians and Their Ancient Documents (1st ed.). Thiruvananthapuram. Quoted in Jeevan Philip : Unmasking the Syriacs : The Hidden Origin of Indian Christianity (2022)
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