CHENNAI (ICNS) — The tsunami waves have subsided, but a miracle is being talked about across Chennai. It is the story of how St Thomas' miraculous post kept the invading waves away, sparing the newly renovated Santhome Cathedral. The Cathedral, the world's second basilica built on an apostle's tomb, has been giving shelter to hundreds of tsunami victims ever since the waves ravaged many buildings across the coast. But even though the killer tsunami waves devastated the Chennai coast, Father Lawrence Raj, the parish priest of the Santhome Cathedral Basilica, says "The sea did not touch our church." The reason? "We believe the miraculous post of St Thomas prevented the seawaters from entering the church," says Father Raj.
The church that sits at the site where St. Thomas, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ, was buried after his death in the year 72 is located a few metres from the sea. While all the buildings on either side of the church were hit by the tsunami waves, the Santhome Cathedral remained unaffected. Local people now say it is the St Thomas' miraculous post that has kept the sea away on December 26.
