Roughly ten percent of this community is descended from eastward-migrating Syriac Christians, while the rest trace their heritage to the mission established by a Resurrection-doubting saint.
Members of this religious group often carry ornamental umbrellas to church services. In weddings celebrated by this non-Jewish community, the bride and groom sit under a canopy and she is given a gold cross strung from a necklace. Because they could not all physically touch it, hundreds of thousands of members of this community attached ropes to a granite cross to swear a 1653 oath at Coonan proclaiming their independence. They eat pesaha appam, unleavened bread dipped in syrup or milk, during Maundy Thursday. Resisting the Synod of Diamper and other (*) Portuguese attempts to bring them into the Catholic fold, members of this community formed the splinter Malankara Church. Roughly ten percent of this community is descended from eastward-migrating Syriac Christians, while the rest trace their heritage to the mission established by a Resurrection-doubting saint. For 10 points, name this Malayalam-speaking Christian community from Kerala, named for an apostle who preached in India.
Members of this religious group often carry ornamental umbrellas to church services.
Saint Thomas Christians [or Nasrani; or Northists; or Southists; or Knanaya; or Tekkumbhagar; or the Malabar Church; or the Malankara Church before mentioned; accept any answer include Thomas or a word form; prompt on Syriac Christians; prompt on Indian Christians] 