In 1095, in a carefully crafted speech
before prelates and nobles in Claremont, France, Pope Urban II called Europe to action: A Crusade to aid the Christian empire of Byzantium.
In the absence of adequate answers to such questions, it is difficult to accept the statement of A.M. Mundadan that» tradition is unanimous in asserting that the
prelates of St. Thomas Christians came from Babylon (Persia) for many centuries
before the arrival of the Portuguese in India.»