San Thome Church is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in the Santhome neighbourhood of Chennai, India. This church is one of the three known churches in the world built over the tomb of an apostle of Jesus that are still standing today, the other two being St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City and Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Galicia, Spain. In antiquity, there was a basilica built over the tomb of the Apostle Philip in Hierapolis of Phrygia, near modern day Pamukkale. The church houses the bones of St Thomas, the spearhead used to kill him, and the relics of St Francis Xavier and St Bartholomew the Apostle.
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