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Dear Annie, What i meant Marthoma Christians is that …

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Comment posted Familytree – Syrian Christians DNA Project Information by rp.

Dear Annie,
What i meant Marthoma Christians is that not Marthomites or Marthoma denomination and that is different. But what Marthoma means in general doesn’t matter which denomination it is, it means in suryani saint thomas( mar=saint, thoma=thomas) . More clearly it means the people who converted by St Thomas. We need to know all we all are Syrian Christian or suryani Christani that I think we all rooted someway to the west Asian land may be from palatine Israel Syria, Jewish Christians from Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq which St Thomas evangelize these places same as well as in India. But we may not original in these sense but mixed with few Indians like when Namboothirs, Nair Dravidians, locals converted compared to many immigrants in our Christian community
Again we used to be one before Portuguese arrived in 15th century and Portuguese let all the Syrian Christian converted to Catholics by force and destroyed lot of Syrian Christian ancient documents. Therefore we don’t have any proof regarding our history instead some oral information. After coon kurusu sathyam, our forefather came out from these Portuguese traditions and started to rebuilt the original Aramaic worship except some group and that is the roman catholic and Latin catholic denomination. Then different denominations originated i think Orthodox and Marthoma were right after coonon kurusu sathaym Therefore we are Syrian Christians that people just say first it was catholic. then orthodox or may be Jacobite , Marthoma , CSI , Evangelical, Reeth but nobody has any information what it was 1st century to 15 th century. These I write from my knowledge but Jackson , and few others are best in these to answer annie’s questions