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Devasahayam Pillai

November 15, 2021
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In news– Devasahayam Pillai, a Hindu man who converted to Christianity is set to be first non-ordained conferred sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church in early 2022.

About Devasahayam Pillai–

  • He was born on April 23, 1712 in the village of Nattalam, Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu.
  • He went on to serve in the court of Travancore’s Maharaja Marthanda Varma.
  • It was here that he met a Dutch naval commander, who taught him about the Catholic faith.
  • In 1745, soon after he was baptised, he assumed the name “Lazarus” or “Devasahayam” in Malayalam, translated to “God is my help”.
  • But he then faced the wrath of the Travancore state, which was against his conversion.
  • In 1752, just seven years after he became a Catholic, Devasahayam was shot dead in the Aralvaimozhy forest. 
  • Since then, he has widely been considered a martyr by the Catholic community in South India. 
  • His body is now at Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral in the Diocese of Kottar,  Tamil Nadu.
  • In 2004, the diocese of Kottar in Kanyakumari, along with the Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council (TNBC) and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) recommended Devasahayam for beatification to the Vatican. 
  • He was declared blessed by the Kottar diocese in 2012, 300 years after his birth. 
  • In remarks that day during the midday ‘Angelus’ prayer in the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI recalled Devasahayam as ‘faithful layman’. 
  • In February 2020, he was first approved for sainthood for “enduring increasing hardships” after he decided to embrace Christianity.

 

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