'Knai Thomman or in English, Bishop Thomas of Cana, was a prominent Knanaya merchant or a Bishop from Edessa (Or Urfa), know known as Şanlıurfa, Turkey. According to tradition recorded in eighteenth century document, with the instructions from the Patriarch of Antioch, Mor Yusthedius,he came with 72 families to Malabar Coast in Kerala, India in 345 AD. The details about this merchant or bishop are shrouded in mystery and there is no agreement on the year/period of his arrival, or from where he arrived, or on what grounds. Veracity of these claims