Suppresion Defined (was: The Gospel of Thomas)

[rj]

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> Were the Apocrypha or other non-canonical texts confiscated and destroyed?

Well, no, but they were buried to keep them safe, so that threat does
seem to have presented itself at one time. And who knows what other
(lost) texts were "confiscated and destroyed", or simply suppressed by
other means?

Umberto Eco's *The Name of the Rose* provides an interesting perspective
on this sort of thing I think.