<P> According to tradition, St. Thomas laid the original foundation for Christianity in India . It is reported that Jewish communities already present in India enticed Thomas to make his missionary journey there . It is said that he brought holy anointing oil with him and that the St. Thomas Christians still have this oil to this day . </P> <P> Patriarch Ya ` qub, of the Syrian Malabar Nasrani Church, is remembered for his celebration of the liturgy and his humble encouragement to accept the simple way of life . After he consecrated sacred myron in the Mor Gabriel monastery in 1964, holy myron flowed from the glass container the following day and many people were said to have been healed by it . </P> <P> While sources agree about the identity of four of the five ingredients of anointing oil, the identity of the fifth, "kaneh bosem", has been a matter of debate . The Bible indicates that it was an aromatic cane or grass, which was imported from a distant land by way of the spice routes, and that a related plant grows naturally in Israel . Several different plants have been named as possibly being the "kaneh bosem". </P> <P> Most lexicographers, botanists, and biblical commentators translate keneh bosem as "cane balsam". The Aramaic Targum Onkelos renders the Hebrew kaneh bosem in Aramaic as q'nei busma . Ancient translations and sources identify this with the plant variously referred to as sweet cane, or sweet flag (nl . the Septuagint, the Rambam on Kerithoth 1: 1, Saadia Gaon and Jonah ibn Janah). This plant is known to botanists as acorus calamus . According to Aryeh Kaplan in The Living Torah, "It appears that a similar species grew in the Holy Land, in the Hula region in ancient times (Theophrastus, History of Plants 9: 7)." </P>

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