The Thomas of Cana copper plates, or Knanaya copper plates, dated variously between 345 C.E. and 811 C.E., are a lost set of copper-plate grants issued by the unidentified Chera/Perumal king of Kerala
Thomas of Cana Received by Cheraman Perumal
Du Perron's Translation Mentioning Thomas of Cana (1758)
Mar Yaqob Abuna was one of the metropolitans of the Church of Malabar of the Saint Thomas Christians. In 1503, Mar Eliya V, the Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East consecrated three Bishops
In a letter to kingJohn III of Portugal dated 26 January 1549 Francis Xavier describe Yaqob Abuna as a virtuous and saintly man