Location:
Bazaar Road, Mattanchery, Kochi
Situated on
the way to Mattanchery from Fort Kochi and near the Mattanchery Police Station
and Jew Street in the Bazar Road is this very serene church called as
Jeevamatha church or ‘Church of Our Lady of Life’. It is also known as Koonan
Kurish Pilgrim Centre in Mattanchery. It is one of the oldest churches in Kochi,
recently renovated.
A major
event in the history of Christianity in the Indian subcontinent took place in
this church which led to the emergence of the Syrian Orthodox Church or
Jacobites in India. In the early 16th century, the Portuguese after their
arrival in Kochi did not accept the legitimacy of the local Malabar traditions
and made efforts to forcefully Latinise the Kerala church. The oath by the
‘bent cross’ was taken in this church on January 3, 1653, which was a public
declaration of the St Thomas Christians (followers of St Thomas, a disciple of
Jesus Christ) community that they would not submit to Latin catholic Portuguese
dominance. Hence after over 50 years of being dominated by the Latin church,
the majority of the St Thomas Christians broke off from catholic supremacy
after taking this oath.
https://www.alivechristians.com/psalm-77-chapter-and-verse/
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