TY  - BOOK
AU  - MANNARATHARA, JOHN (Editor)
TI  - THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF SAINT KURYAKOSE ELIAS CHAVARA
SN  - 9788130930183
U1  - 270.092 MAN/T 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Viva Books
KW  - Chavra Kuryakose Elias
KW  - Social reformers
KW  - India - Kerala
KW  - Christian biography
N2  - Three crippling social perils: epidemic deaths, untouchability and illiteracy. Three impediments that threatened Malabar Church unity: the Roccos schism, blind westernisation and eastern extremism. There were problems all around, but Saint Chavara visualised only solutions. Over time, these solutions grew into missions of humanity, across the globe. They became schools, colleges, universities and spiritual and cultural centres. Here is the saga of Kuriakose Elias, a kalari-bred boy from Kerala, the southernmost tip of India, who became Saint Chavara and transformed the society in which he lived into a powerhouse. In this illustrated book historians, journalists, cultural activists, poets and philosophers take a close look at this extraordinary human being who carried out his tasks with resolute dedication and whose accomplishments are legion.

Dr (Fr) Thomas C Mathew
Vice Chancellor, Christ University, Bangalore
ER  -