Did St. Thomas really went to Chennai?

Question

St.Thomas was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus.

Answer 1

According to the Christian History Institute, he did:
After the Holy Spirit came upon the apostles, Thomas carried the gospel eastward. Strong traditions link his name with Iran and India. All agree that he was martyred.

Thomas probably died in India, at Mylapore near Madras (Chennai). According to the best record we have, an angry pagan priest drove a spear through his body while he knelt in prayer. Unfortunately, Portuguese adventurers destroyed precious documents that might have shed light on Thomas' history. The Portuguese thought that the Christians of Malabar were heretics. And so the writings of Christians who have an ancient church named for Thomas and who can point to a tomb where he was buried, are lost forever.

Wikipedia has the same story:
While exploring the Malabar coast of west India in 1498, the Portuguese encountered Christians who traced their foundations to Thomas. However, the Catholic Portuguese did not accept the legitimacy of local Malabar traditions, and they began to impose Roman Catholic practices upon the Saint Thomas Christians, some of whom conformed, to become the Syro-Malankara and Syro-Malabar Catholic churches; others resisted and remained fully within the various Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian traditions. A number have since joined other Christian denominations.

On the isolated island of Socotra south of Yemen in the Arabian Sea, a community of Christians had been attested as early as ca. 354 by Philostorgius, the Arian Church historian, in his narrative of the mission of Bishop Theophilus to the Homeritae (Medleycott), and was confirmed by medieval Arab sources. They survived to be documented in 1542 by Saint Francis Xavier, whom they informed that their ancestors had been evangelized by Thomas (Medlycott 1905, ch. ii). Francis Xavier was careful to station four Jesuits to guide the faithful in Socotra into orthodoxy (letter, April 15, 1549). Socotra had been briefly garrisoned by Albuquerque, but after the Mahra sultans from the Horn of Africa conquered Socotra in 1511. Almost all traces of the Thomas Christian community in Socotra had been utterly effaced (see Socotra).

There is near Chennai (formerly Madras) in India, a small hillock called St. Thomas Mount, where the Apostle is said to have been killed in 78 AD (exact year not established). Also to be found in Chennai is the San Thome Cathedral Basilica to which his mortal remains were supposedly transferred.

My thoughts? Maybe he did. That's all I can say.

Answer 2

ECR highway starts from Tiruvanmeyur and ends pondycherry(Puducherry) So persist with this highway will take you on the thank you to mahabailupuram and from there to pondycherry (Puducheccr).

Answer 3

no doubt. he was in st.thomas mount only.in chennai...