7 people were killed in the firing - people from the Mattoor, Kyppattoor and Kottamam parishes of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Ernakulam.
Kottekkavu (N. Parur) and Kokkamangalam / Pallippuram (Cherthala) are two places where St Thomas established churches in the first century.
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St. Thomas who reached Kerala in AD 52 brought Christianity to India.
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Many places which are believed to be associated with the coming of St. Thomas are in this diocese.
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In 1998, he told Abdallah Naaman: "We are the "Shawams" (Syro-Lebanese, referring to the Bilad al-Sham) of Egypt. My father is a Greek Orthodox native of the village of al-Qusayr, near Homs, in Syria. Upon arriving in Cairo at the end of the 19th century, our surname's pronunciation was simplified to "Cossery" (from "Qusayri")."
This Cross is at St. Mary's Church under the diocese of Ernakulam- Angamaly of the Syro Malabar Church.
Angamaly Diocese is the largest of the 21 Diocess of Jacobite Syrian Christian Church.
The Angamaly Firing was an incident that took place in Angamaly, Kerala, on June 13, 1959, when police opened fire on protesters who had been demonstrating against Kerala's communist government.
Mar Augustine Kandathil (b. at Chempu, near Vaikom, in Kottayam, Kingdom of Travancore, 25 August 1874; d. at Ernakulam, Travancore-Cochin, India, 10 January 1956) was the first and longest serving Metropolitan and Head of the Syro-Malabar Church, the principal Church of the Saint Thomas Christians in India.
Cleemis was installed as the first Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archieparchy of Tiruvalla on 10 June 2006.
The merger of the Federal Bank and Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) had been opposed by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur.
Bishop Charles Lavigne, S.J. (born 11 June 1840, Marvejols, France – died 11 December 1913, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka) was a Roman Catholic bishop in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the first bishop of Kottayam.
The Maronite Catholic Church and The Mar Thoma Nasranis of India-Syro-Malabar Catholic Church are notable amongst the Eastern rite that employs the use of ashes on this day.
In May 1887, the Holy See established the Syro-Malabar Church in India as independent of the hierarchy of the Latin Rite.
It was founded on 19 March 1931 in a small village called Mookkannur by Mar Augustine Kandathil, the Metropolitan of Ernakulam and head of the Syro-Malabar Church.
The church is also a prominent forane church in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Tellicherry.
Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Rosa) was born on October 17, 1877, in the village of Kattoor, in Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur in Thrissur district.
Chase was known for research into the Bezan and Syro-Latin texts, including the Codex Bezae.
Geevarghese Divannasios Ottathengil (born on 1 November 1950, Anaprambal, India) is the incumbent Syro-Malankara Catholic bishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Puthur since 2010.
George Nedungatt (born on 21 December 1932 in Peringuzha near Muvattupuzha in Travancore, India), is an Indian Jesuit priest of Oriental rite, and expert in Oriental Canon Law.
The setting is the Syro-Ephraimite War, 734 BC, which saw Judah pitted against two northern neighbours, Israel (called Ephraim in the prophecy) and Syria (also known as Aram or Aram-Damascus or Syria-Damascus).
From 1990-92, Professor Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.
He currently serves as the Bishop of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Palai (also known as Pala), which has the largest concentration of Syro-Malabar Catholics.
Cardinal Husar was one of the three Eastern Catholics to participate in the papal conclave, 2005, the others being Ignace Daoud of the Syrian Catholic Church and Varkey Vithayathil of the Syro-Malabar Church.
It is administered by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Trivandrum.
Mary's Syro-Malabar Catholic Forane Church is in Arakuzha village, 6 km from Muvattupuzha, India.
Archbishop Aboon Geevarghese Mar Ivanios - Founding father of the Syro–Malankara Catholic Church.
It also has a growing ecumenical relationship with the Indian Orthodox Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, and the Latin Catholic Church but has no special relationship or communion with any of those Churches.
Located 3 km to the North is the archaeological site of Coba Höyük, which contains Pottery Neolithic, Halaf, Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic/Uruk and Neo-Hittite material culture.
Mary's Malankara Syrian Catholic Major Seminary is a centre of priestly training of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
The Eastern Rite tradition was historically associated with the Church of the East, and is currently employed by the Middle Eastern churches that descend from it, the Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church, (the members of these churches are commonly Eastern Aramaic speaking ethnic Assyrians) as well as by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of India.
Isaiah concludes these prophecies concerning his children (Shear-Jashub (meaning 'a remnant returns', Isaiah 7.3), Immanuel (meaning 'God is with us'), and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (meaning 'quick to plunder, speedy to spoil') by saying, 'Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.' (Isaiah 8.18 NIV) Interestingly enough, the context continues into chapter 9 which also uses a birth of a child as its object.
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The next chapter details another prophecy about a child by the name of Maher-shalal-hash-baz (meaning 'Quick to plunder, speedy to spoil').
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During the invasion, the Philistines and Edomites were taking advantage of the situation and raiding towns and villages within the Southern Kingdom.
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The Syro-Ephraimite War took place in the 8th century BC, when Assyria was a great regional power.
Michael Geddes, (1694) A Short History of the Church of Malabar together with the Synod of Diamper, London.
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The Latinization of the Syro-Malabar rite churches was brought to a head when in 1896 Ladislaus Zaleski, the Apostolic Delegate to India, requested permission to translate the Roman Pontifical into Syriac.
St Thomas, one of the apostles of Christ, after receiving the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, set about the mission of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to the whole world.
# Geevarghese Mar Divannasios (1996-2010)
The Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Thamarassery, Thamarassery Public Library founded in 1946, Mini Civil Station, The Mary Matha Cathedral Church and the New Bus Stand are some of the major landmarks of the town.
The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the Decoding of the Language of the Koran English Edition of 2007 (Die syro-aramäische Lesart des Koran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Koransprache (2000)) is a book by Christoph Luxenberg.
Tomb of Mar Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly at Mar Yohannan Nepumsianose Syro-Malabar Church, Konthuruthy
Blessed Kunjachan (Fr. Augustine), son of Mani and Elizabeth Thevarparampil, was born on 1 April 1891, at Ramapuram in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Palai, Kerala, India.
Major Archbishop Cardinal Mar Varkey Vithayathil is the head of the Syro-Malabar Church, the second largest Eastern Rite or Oriental Catholic Church.