I'd guess there is a story behind that.
"Syrian Orthodox Church in India"
I'd guess there is a story behind that.
Look up Saint Thomas, AKA Doubting Thomas.
From Wiki:
Eusebius of Caesarea (Historia Ecclesiastica, III.1) quotes Origen (died mid-3rd century) as having stated that Thomas was the apostle to the Parthians, but Thomas is better known as the missionary to India through the Acts of Thomas, written ca 200. In Edessa, where his remains were venerated, the poet Ephrem the Syrian (died 373) wrote a hymn in which the Devil cries,
...Into what land shall I fly from the just?
I stirred up Death the Apostles to slay, that by their death I might escape their blows.
But harder still am I now stricken: the Apostle I slew in India has overtaken me in Edessa; here and there he is all himself.
There went I, and there was he: here and there to my grief I find him. —quoted in Medlycott 1905, ch. ii.
St. Ephraem, the great doctor of the Syrian Church, writes in the forty-second of his “Carmina Nisibina” that the Apostle was put to death in India, and that his remains were subsequently buried in Edessa, brought there by a merchant.[19]
A Syrian ecclesiastical calendar of an early date confirms the above. The entry reads: “3 July, St. Thomas who was pierced with a lance in India. His body is at Urhai [the ancient name of Edessa] having been brought there by the merchant Khabin. A great festival.” It is only natural to expect that we should receive from Edessa first-hand evidence of the removal of the relics to that city; and we are not disappointed, for St. Ephraem, the great doctor of the Syrian Church, has left us ample details in his writings. [20]
I used Wiki, because it is easy to find on line, but over the years, I have read other books with similar information, written by recognized scholars.
Also, look up George Lamsa at Amazon. He was an Assyrian Orthodox Church scholar, and wrote about the beginings of that church. Also, his people also still spoke Aramaic, so he did a popular, rather than scholarly, work on Aramaic idioms used in the Bible, aimed at helping Western Christians better understand what what was being said. They use the Syriac, not the KJV, in his church.