Blessed Roque Zephrin Noronha was born on 20th Oct. 1850, at Angediva – Bardez, Goa, as the youngest son of Custodio Santa Anna de Noronha and Feleciana Dionisia Assumpcao da Silva. After completing basic education, he joined the Rachol Royal Seminary in Margoa Goa. He was ordained a Roman Catholic Read more…
Geevarghese Mar Dioscoros was born on 12 October 1926, the youngest son of Kunjupappi and Achamma of the Thevervelil Family in Kozhencherry. After completing Intermediate at Madurai American College in 1948, he joined the Madras Christian College. He graduated from there in 1950 and took his master’s degree in Sociology Read more…
Mary Magdalene is mentioned in all four canonical gospel accounts, where she appears as the first-named of Jesus’ female followers and played an important and pivotal role in Christ’s Ministry. She is mentioned about 12 times in the N. T. and most of the times she is mentioned in the Read more…
Makrina was born in A.D. 327, Caesarea, Cappadocia, in a renowned holy family. Her father, Basil the elder, was a well-known lawyer and orator in Pontus. Her mother, Emelia, was the daughter of a martyr, during the time of persecution of Maximian. Her grandmother was Makrina the Elder. Basil and Emelia had Read more…
The legend of Yulletti (Julitta) and Kuriakos still persists in various forms. We are told that when persecution was raging against Christians under Diocletian (284-305), a wealthy and pious Christian noblewoman named Julitta was widowed with a three-year-old son named Kuriakos (Cyricus). As a Christian, Julitta decided that life in Read more…
Mar Abhai, saint, and martyr, ascetic, born in a village Raksan in Mardin, Turkey in the middle of the fourth century BC. Abhai abandoned the world, gave all his wealth to the poor and joined a Dyayra (monastery). He had recourse to ascetic life in the mountain of Karkar and Read more…
Joseph Mar Dionysius II was born on November 12, 1833, in the Pulikkottil family of Kunnamkulam near Trichur. His father was Tharu Kurien, the nephew of ‘ Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysius I’ (the founder of the Old Seminary at Kottayam) and mother, Thadamma, the brother’s daughter of Paingamukku ‘Kuthuru’ Geevarghese Read more…
His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Paulose II was born on 30th August 1946 in a village called Mangad near Kunnamkulam, Trissur District, Kerala as the son of the late Kollannur Iype and the late Kunjeetty, who hails from the famous family of Pulikkottil. Paul was baptized at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church, Pazhanji, named Read more…
Zechariah Mar Dionysius Metropolitan was born on 6th August 1924, as the third son to Chandapilla and Elizabeth of Mulamootil Mangalavila family in Kundara. He was baptised by HH Catholicos Baselios Geevarghese II, at Kundara Valliya Palli. He had his preliminary schooling in St Kuriakose School, Kundara. He continued his Read more…
Mar Thoma VII was a bishop of the Malankara Church from 1796 and Malankara Metropolitan from April 1808 to July 1809. Mathen, as he known in his childhood, was born in Pakalomattom family, one of the oldest families in Kerala. He became a deacon and a priest at a very early age. Read more…