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who settled at Quilon, and that the first settlers were called the
Northerners and the second ones the Southerners.
Even now no inter-marriage takes place between the
members of these two communities. This is mainly because
the southerners who take pride in their Jewish descent literally
follow Abraham’s advce to his servant Eleazor to select a wife
for Isaac his son from his own tribe (Genesis Chapter 24-Verse
3 & 4). The southerners possess a fairer complexion than the
Northerners.
Followers of Thomas of Cana afterwards traded on a large
scale with persia and thereby made themselves rich and
respectable. They also trained themselves in the art of warfare
from the eight to the twenty-fifth age. Some historians are of
opinion that during the period confusion which followed the
reign of Cheraman Perumals, when petty chiets asserted
themselves as independent rulers, a Christian King named
Beliart of the valiyarvattam dynasty, ruled the thirty-two
Christian villages of Malabar. After this line became extinct,
the Christains were brought under the sway of the Rajas of
Native Cochin.
Long after his death, the people of Malabar canonised
Thomas of Cana. Some have wrongly confused his name with
that of St. Thomas, the Apostle. *. ‘Long After his (The Armenian
Merchant named Thomas of Cana’) death the people Canonised
him and the subsequent generations confused St. Thomas the
Armenian Merchant with St. Thomas the Apostle who never
came to Malabar.”
-Church History of Travancore-C.M. Agur-Page 12

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