History of christianity in kerala pdf

The clergy's uneasy relationship, mostly, with India's valiant freedom fighters who fought for freedom from the British is history, but pious exceptions adorn the altar of the country's struggle for Independence.

Mar Abimalek Timotheus, an Assyrian priest who spent a major part of his life in Kerala's Thrissur, could empathise with the freedom fighters due to the plight of his own folks in his native place of Mar Bisho, a village lorded over by the Ottaman Empire in its last leg.

Mar Timotheus was a priest of the Church of the East who served as Metropolitan of Malabar and All India from 1907 until he died in 1945.

Though he died two years before the country won Independence from the British, he had made his sentiments for the movement clear. His meetings with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, stalwarts of the Independence Struggle, would vouch for this.

The details of the meetings are well recorded in a biography of Mar Themotheus written by Dr Mar Aprem Metrop Details!