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== THE SAINT OF PARUMALA ==

Geevarghese Mar Gregorios or "Parumala Thirumeni" is the greatest saint the Ma!ankara Orthodox Church has given birth to. "Canonizing of Saints" is not a .usual practice in the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the fact that Parumala Thirumeni is the only canonized saint in the Malankara Church, goes to prove how widely and spontaneously he was acclaimed as a saint during and after his relatively short span of earthly life. He died at Parumala on 2nd November 1902 and was canonized on 2nd November 1.947, forty-five years after his demise, by the Holy Episcopal Synod of the Malankara Church presided over by His Holiness Baselius Geevarghese II, Catholicos of the East, himself a prime disciple of Parumala Thirumeni.

Geevarghese’s mother died when he was small boy. So his elder sister Mariam, who was married into the 'Palaal' family in Aikkara came to Chathuruthy and took charge of the upbringing of her young brother. Mariam had a son of almost Geevarghese’s age and hence she could look after the two boys as her own children.