GREAT AND GLORIOUS ROLE IS WAITING FOR INDIA IN THE FUTURE... - prediction of St. Nicholas of Serbia

Saint Nikolai the Serb: «The first Orthodox mission in India was in the first century of the Christian epoch. It was represented by the holy Apostle Thomas and his followers. This apostolic mission had good success, but it was strangled by polytheists and Muslims. There remained only one small group in Malabar, which still exists[comm. 66]. The next eight centuries the Eastern Orthodox Church spent in a terrible struggle against heretics, the last of which were the Roman Catholics. Then God allowed the enslavement of Orthodox peoples by the Turks in Asia Minor and the Balkans and by the Mongols in Russia. During these enslavements, the western nations became stronger, created empires and conquered all continents, and even India. And only their Christian missions had access to the conquered peoples; but without success. For where the cross is preceded by a sword, there the cross is hated. Only now, the peoples of the Eastern Orthodox Church are able to rise to serve their brethren in India...» Orthodox prophecies about the end times, the Antichrist and Russia