Thomas

Its protagonist and, per the text itself, the twin brother of Jesus; the source of that identification.

This source names Thomas directly: "From 1723 until his death he served as Thomaskantor, the director of music for Leipzig's main Lutheran churches and the St Thomas School, a post that required him to compose new music for every..."

This source names Thomas directly: "conscientious objection; and Seth Thomas, who refused blood transfusions during a liver transplant on doctrinal grounds."

This source names Thomas directly: "Jamaica, particularly around Saint Thomas parish."

This source names Thomas directly: "by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh and Barrett, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan."

This source names Thomas directly: "Independent's report, byline Lucia Thomas, published 14 June 2026, naming the assessed value of Twelve Tribes' property holdings in Plymouth, Massachusetts alone, more than 7 million dollars, used..."

This source names Thomas directly: "The Acts of Thomas, an anonymous third century Syriac romance, is the source of the Indian mission narrative attributed to the apostle Thomas, the story of King Gundaphorus, and the tradition..."

This source names Thomas directly: "and English translation of the Acts of Thomas, reconstructing a composite Syriac text against the Greek witnesses with a full introduction and verse by verse commentary."

This source names Thomas directly: "2016, authored by Bishop Matthew Thomas."

This source names Thomas directly: "edition of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, a case even King eventually accepted as pointing toward forgery."

This source names Thomas directly: "of Christ, traditionally attributed to Thomas a Kempis and translated here by Betty I."

This source names Thomas directly: "record for "The Incredulity of Saint Thomas," an etching, first state of three, by an anonymous Italian printmaker, circa 1640 to 1660."

This source names Thomas directly: "Brown's The Indian Christians of St. Thomas: An Account of the Ancient Syrian Church of Malabar, published by Cambridge University Press in 1956, is a scholarly account of the Saint Thomas Christian..."

This source names Thomas directly: "the Danish Caribbean island of Saint Thomas, founding the Moravian Church's first overseas mission and beginning a wave of eighteenth-century missionary expansion that within a decade reached..."

This source names Thomas directly: "A Wikipedia article on Thomas the Apostle, recording the Gospel of John episode in which Thomas declares he will not believe the Resurrection unless he sees and touches the wounds in Christ's hands..."

This source names Thomas directly: "Moravian missionaries arrived on St. Thomas in 1732, one of the earliest sustained Protestant missions to enslaved Africans anywhere in the Americas, and Moravian congregations remain active on the..."

This source names Thomas directly: "and publishing early work by Dylan Thomas."

The print's directly named subject per the museum's own title, shown touching Christ's wound, matching the corroborating Wikipedia record's account of the Gospel episode and Thomas's confession, My Lord and my God.

Thomas's own description article: "The Acts of Thomas, a third-century Syriac romance, makes the twin explicit and startling: Thomas is the twin brother of Jesus." Named to that specific text, which the article does not dispute. A studied-by edge already connects Thomas and Jesus for the discipleship, a distinct fact from this one.

Traditional apostolic founding attribution, one of three named apostles the church traces its origin to.