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Kathanar
Kathanar () is an ancient Nasrani Mappila term in Malayalam that means ''priest''. The term is still in colloquial usage, although not in regular formal use. It was anglicized in archaic English texts as ''Cattanar'' or ''Kattanar'', especially during 19th century CE or earlier. Due to the widespread usage of English terminology such as Father, Reverend, Vicar or the Malayalam word ''Achen'' () or the Syriac word Kasseessa (), it mostly fell out of usage in contemporary formal contexts, but recently found a revival among Nasrani Mappilas. Notable Kathanars * Kadavil Chandy Kathanar * Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar * Kadamattathu Kathanar Kadamattathu Kathanar was a '' kathanar'' (priest) who, according to legends, possessed magical powers. He was an ordained deacon of Kadamattom Church in the 9th century, originally affiliated to the Syriac Orthodox Church in India, in Kada ... * Nidhiry Mani Kathanar * Payyappilly Varghese Kathanar * Rev. George Mathan a.k.a. Geeva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadamattathu Kathanar
Kadamattathu Kathanar was a '' kathanar'' (priest) who, according to legends, possessed magical powers. He was an ordained deacon of Kadamattom Church in the 9th century, originally affiliated to the Syriac Orthodox Church in India, in Kadamattam near Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district, Kerala. According to legends, his real name was Poulose and he was the disciple of bishop Mar Abo. The church's history is undocumented, surviving solely through local legends. The tales surrounding Kathanar encapsulate the experiences of the local populace, conveyed through elements of magic and sorcery. These tales portray him as a priest with supernatural powers, employed for the common good. Historicity In medieval legends, history and fables were combined inextricably. The story of Kadamattathu Kathanar might be a mixture of history and fables. Currently there is no certain proof that he really existed, but the fact that a real priest lived in that area in the ninth century cannot be de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar
Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar (1736–1799) is the author of '' Varthamanappusthakam'' (1790), the first ever travelogue in an Indian language. Also known as ''Roma Yatraa Varthamanapusthakam'', it postulates that the foundation of Indian nationalism rests on the basic principle that India should achieve civic self-rule. Long before the debates on nationalism shaking the intellectual circles of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Thoma Kathanar offers a distinctive positionality as a minority Syriac Christian priest and subsequent administrator of the Archdiocese of Cranganore with transnational ties to Portuguese ecclesiology who nevertheless argues in favor of autonomous civic Indian governance. He was also a polyglot, an efficient administrator and priest of the ''Malankare Kaldaya Suriyani Sabha'' (known officially as the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church since 1923), who tried to bring about unity in the Church and also to maintain its unique heritage. Paremmakkal Thoma was born as the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjilimoottil Itty Thommen Kathanar
Anjilimoottil Itty Thommen Kathanar (d. 10 May 1659) was a Kathanar (Syriac priest) of the Knanaya community of Kerala during the time of Portuguese persecution. Together with Arch Deacon Thoma Kathanar (later Mar Thoma I), he led the Malankara Church during the turbulent times towards the end of the Portuguese Padroado. In particular, he gave leadership to a crowd of about 25,000 members of the community at Mattancherry during the open revolt against the Portuguese in 1653 following the capture of the Syrian Bishop Ahatallah Ahatallah (1590 – c. 1655) was a Syrian metropolitan chiefly known for his trip to India in 1652. His mysterious appearance in, and disappearance from Portuguese India caused a great uproar there, and resulted directly in a revolt by the Saint T .... The incident led to the Coonan Cross Oath. Aftermath of the Coonan Cross Oath After the Coonan Cross Oath, Thommen organized an important meeting of the Saint Thomas Christian community, at Alangadu Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly
Varghese Payyappilly was an Indian Syro-Malabar priest from Kerala and the founder of the congregation of Sisters of the Destitute. He was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 14 April 2018. Family Kathanar was born as Kunjuvaru on 8 August 1876 to Payyappilly Lonan and Kunjumariam in the Palakkappilly branch of Payyappilly Nasrani family at Perumanoor, Thevara.Obituary – Priests Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly Payyappilly is an ancient Saint Thomas Christian family in India, baptized by in the first century. The word Payyappilly, translated as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Thomas Christian
The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, ''Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani'', ''Malankara Nasrani'', or ''Nasrani Mappila'', are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians in the state of Kerala ( Malabar region), who, for the most part, employ the Eastern and Western liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity. They trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. The Saint Thomas Christians had been historically a part of the hierarchy of the Church of the East but are now divided into several different Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and independent bodies, each with their own liturgies and traditions. They are based in Kerala and they speak Malayalam. ''Nasrani'' or Nazarene is a Syriac term for Christians, who were among the first converts to Christianity in the Near East. Historically, this community was organised as the Province of India of the Church of the East, by Patriarch Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iype Thoma Kathanar
Kovoor Iype Thoma ''Kathanar'' (1842–1917) (Malayalam: കോവൂർ ഐപ്പ് തോമാ കത്തനാർ), popularly known as Kovoor Achen, was a renowned and pioneering clergyman of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. Together with Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan, he led the reformation activities in the Malankara Church after the death of Abraham Malpan, including the establishment of prayer meetings, vernacular worship and Holy Communion in Malayalam as well as the publication of translated and revised Syriac Liturgy in Malayalam, all of which led to the eventual formation of the Mar Thoma Church. He also played an important role during the first three decades of the church's independent existence as its first vicar general, after it separated from the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church following the Travancore Royal Court verdict in 1889. Life and education Iype Thoma Kathanar was born on 2 December 1842 (17 Vrichikam 1017, M.E.) as K. I. Thoma into the ari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalliyankattu Neeli
Y''akshi'' Kalliyankattu Neeli is a malevolent spirit/Yekshi who appears in Kerala folk songs, Villaticchan songs and folk tales of Travancore. Neely also appears in Marthandavarma, CV Raman Pillai's historical novel. Even though she is a Yakshi (Ghost), Neeli is worshiped in a motherly form in a temple in Panchavankadu, after she is impaled by the great priest Kadamattathu Kathanar. Folklore Neeli used to roam around and terrorize Panchavankadu in Thiruvananthapuram district. She is said to be a bloodthirsty ghost (yekshi) with divine beauty. Before being a malevolent spirit, Neeli was born as Alli, the daughter of Karveni, a Devadasi, who lived in the land of Pakhakannur in the early ninth century with a fierce appearance. Her hair reached her knees, complementing her wide eyes and mesmerizing beauty. She was described as beautiful and fell in love with and married the priest of the local Shiva temple, Nambi. Nambi married her for her money and regularly cheated on Alli wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadavil Chandy Kathanar
Kadavil Chandy Kathanar (), also known as Alexander the Indian () was a ''Kathanar'' (priest) and a celebrated scholar, orator, hymnographer and syriacist from the Saint Thomas Christian community in India. He was a prominent face of the Saint Thomas Christians and lead their Malankara Church (Paḻayakūṟ), Catholic faction during a turbulent period of divisions in the community after the Coonan Cross Oath of 1653. He was from Kaduthuruthy, Kottayam in Kerala state of India. He often reacted vehemently against the colonial Padroado latin subjugation over his community and resisted their ecclesiastical and cultural dominance. He was widely reputed for his knowledge in Syriac language and literature, and was often praised, both among his own community and the European missionaries who wrote about him in their letters addressed to the Portuguese monarch and to the Pope. His acrostic poems propagated even among West Asia's Syriac language, Syriac-speaking communities. Although he sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titus I Mar Thoma
Titus I Mar Thoma XV (20 February 1843 – 20 October 1909), better known as ''Thithos Mar Thoma Metropolitan'' (Thithos being the Aramaic and form of the name ''Titus''), was the second Mar Thoma Metropolitan (1893–1909) after the Malankara Church split as the Orthodox and reformist factions. The small state of Kerala is on the southwestern coast of India. In the 1st century, Thomas the Apostle arrived there to preach the gospel to the Jewish community. Some local residents became followers of Jesus of Nazareth; they were known as Nasrani people and their church as the Malankara Church. They followed a unique Hebrew- Syriac Christian tradition which included several Jewish elements and Indian customs. After the split in Malankara Syrian Church Thithoos Mar Thoma was the Metropolitan of the Reformed Fraction, which later chose the name Marthoma Syrian Church of Malabar, now popularly known as the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church. This church remained completely independent. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mathan
Rev. George Mathan (25 September 1819 – 4 March 1870), a.k.a. Rev. George Matthan, Rev. George Mathen, Geevarghese Kathanar or Mallapallil Achen (Malayalam: ജോർജ്ജ് മാത്തൻ, was a Saint Thomas Anglican priest (Kathanar), Malayalam grammarian and writer of the 19th century Kerala. Early life and education Mathan was born on 25 September 1819 in the village of Kidangannoor, Kerala as the son of Chengannur Puthencavu Kizhakkethalackal Mathan Tharakan and Puthencavu Puthenveettil Annamma. His great-grandfather Cherian and his grandfather Chummar had received special privileges (Tharakan title) from the Travancore king, as they were a wealthy family who supported the royalty in times of need. From childhood, he had shown great aptitude for learning. Since Mathan's father had died at a very early age, his uncle Rev. Kurian Kathanar took charge of his education. Inspired by Kurian Kathanar, he became a deacon and Kathanar of the undivided Malankara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nidhiry Mani Kathanar
Mar Emmanuel Nidhiri (27 May 1842 – 20 June 1904), also known as Nidhiry Mani Kathanar, was a significant figure in the history of the Syrian Malabar Nasrani church in Kerala. He led his community against the European hegemony over the Saint Thomas Christians and was accepted by the factions in the Kerala church. Nidhiri was the second Vicar General of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Nidhiri founded the ''Nazranee Deepika'', which was the forerunner of today's '' Deepika'' newspaper, and was instrumental in the founding the ''Malayala Manorama''. Furthermore, Nidhiri had a role in organizing the Malayali Memorial— one of the first steps in the social transformation of Kerala —and was a key figure in opening up his community to English education. In 1969, as a tribute to his contribution to Malayalam literature, the Kerala Literary Academy unveiled his portrait in the Academy Hall in Trichur, Kerala. Life Born into a rich agrarian family on 27 May 1842, in Kura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 Languages with official status in India, scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was designated a "Classical Languages of India, Classical Language of India" in 2013. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé, Puducherry, Mahé), and is also the primary spoken language of Lakshadweep. Malayalam is spoken by 35.6 million people in India. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states; with a significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari district, Kanyakumari, Coimbatore district, Coimbatore and Nilgiris district, Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. It is also spoken by the Malayali diaspora, Malayali Diaspora wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
