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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN<br />

Bede Griffiths (Swami Dayananda) (1906 – 1993)<br />

Zacharias Mar Athanasios, the Bishop of Tiruvalla, invited Fr. Francis Mahieu, a Cistercian monk from<br />

the Scourmont Abbey, in Belgium (later known as Francis Acharya) to come to Kerala to start the<br />

ashram. In the course of time, Bede Griffiths joined him there. On 1 December 1956, the two of them<br />

started the new foundation at Tiruvalla in the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church as Kurisumala Ashram<br />

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