Chavara Kuriakose Elias Kathanar is without doubt one of the architects of modern Christian culture in Kerala. He organised the first monastic order drawing at once from Antonian inspiration and European praxis. He propagated the concepted of the Holy Family, essentially part of eastern rationalist definition and alien to oriental Christian heritage, to indirectly strengthen the filial bonds in this part of the world*. He started a press. He inspired the first Malayalam newspaper. He laid the fo...

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