62 According to tradition, James the Just, bishop of Jerusalem, was killed in the temple by an angry mob, apparently struck in the head with a sledgehammer.
Tradition has it Bartholomew was martyred in Kalyana, a city state on the west coast of India, near modern-day Bombay. Bartholomew was skinned alive and crucified.
Paul tried and acquitted in Rome.
The surprise, of course, is the mention of Bartholomew as the pioneer to the East,"
the finding of a Gospel of Matthew left with the Christians by Bartholomew is very strong evidence to the existence of a Christian community in India in the first century at the time of the visit of St. Bartholomew
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showchapter?chapter_id=1366JORDANUS (JORDAN Catalani) (fl. 1321-1330), French Dominican missionary and explorer in Asia
In the thirteenth century, Marco Polo spoke of six great kingdoms in central India, three of which were Christian. Various travellers to India in the late Middle Ages reported encountering Nestorians in Patna, Madras, Bombay, the Punjab and elsewhere throughout India
http://www.oxuscom.com/ch-of-east.htm
Links to understand Nestorianism
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10755a.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14678a.htm