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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN • Another surviving tradition is the use of “Muthukoda” (ornamental umbrella) for church celebrations, marriages and other festivals. Traditional drums and Arch decorations and ornamental umbrella are part of the church celebrations. Its use have become popular all over Kerala. • Boundaries between Christians and Hindus are blurred in some cultural sphere such us house building, astrology, birth and marriage ( use of sandalwood paste, milk, rice and areca nut) • The spiritual life of Nasranis is ordered by liturgical obligations and by its specifically Christian ethics. Death rituals express Christian canonical themes very distantly especially in the ideas concerning life after death and the anticipation of final judgment. • Christians were given honorific titles. “Tharakan” is a word derived from the word for tariff. “Panikkar” denotes proficiency in military training. The most common name of the Christians was Nasrani Mappila. The Church of Saint Thomas Christians accepted the East Syriac liturgy from an early period and along with the liturgy, the systems of ecclesial government, such as Metropolitan, Archdeacon and Yogams had their organic development in relation with East Syriac Churches. • Syriac Christians are not allowed to marry into other religions. • Syriac Christians are not to Marry any of his Relations upto for 5 generations. Kerala Village as in 1879 126
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN The Church Missionary Atlas published 1879 summarizes their perception as follows page 98 "When Vasco de Gama, the great Portuguese navigator reached India by sea round the Cape in 1498, he was received with open arms by the Christians of Malabar; but the connexion with Portugal brought sad trouble upon them. Just century later, the Church, which had successfully resisted the persuasions of the Jesuits, became subject to the jurisdiction of the Pope; the work of subjugation being effected, partly by force and partly by fraus, by Alexius Menezes, Archbishop of Goa. All married priests were deposed; the doctrine of transubstantiation and the worship of Virgin were enforced; the Inquisition was established; and the worship of the Virgin were enforced; was burnt alive at Goa as a heretic. In 1661, however, the ports of Quilon and Cochin were captured by the Dutch, who expelled all the Romish priests, and thus made way for another Syrian Metropolitan, who arrived from Antioch in 1665, and was welcomed as a liberator by the majority of the Christians. The Malabar Church has from that time been free from Papal domination, but has acknowledged the supremacy of the Jacobite Partiarch. Many, however, remained in connexion with the Church of Rome, and became the progenitors of the numerous body of Romanist now in the country." Angamaly Padiyola The difficulties experienced by the St. Thomas Christians of Catholic persuation under the foreign missionaries resulted in a number of protest meetings in Angamali and other places. In one such major convention held in 1778 it was decided to send a delegation to Rome, directly to the Pope. Two Priests Fr. Joseph Kariattil and Fr. Thomas Paremmakal were sent to Pope to get an Archbishop to the See of Kodungalloor. Kariattil was consecrated as the Archbishop of Kodungalloor in 1782 at Lisbon, but on his 127
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