mission · 190 · India
Eusebius says he was appointed a herald of the gospel of Christ to the nations in the East and was sent as far as India, and that he found there that Bartholomew had preached before him and had left behind the writing of Matthew in Hebrew letters, which was preserved until that time. Jerome adds the two details that make the event datable and the person accountable: that Demetrius, bishop of Alexandria, sent him, and that on his return he brought the Hebrew Matthew back with him. Demetrius acceded about 189, which is the whole warrant for the year — Eusebius gives none, and his editor notes that if Jerome is right the journey must fall after 190. What the ancients meant by India is another matter and is not settled here; the place row is the coarse one this dataset already uses for the Thomas and Bartholomew traditions.
To preach where, on the account he brought back, an apostle had preached already.
A Hebrew Matthew carried home to Alexandria, and the earliest external support for the Indian tradition this dataset already carries.