Francis Itty Cora File

Legend says that around 1500 years before his time, in the year AD 345, a group of 400 Syrian Christians—families, deacons, and their bishop Mar Joseph of Uraha—had arrived in Kodungallur. With them, they carried a precious relic: a stone cross inscribed with an ancient Pahlavi script. That cross, known as the Knanaya Cross, was later lost—hidden, perhaps, in the deep forests of Mattancherry, or buried beneath the rubble of time.

He was a 16th-century Syrian Christian from the Knanaya community, a man of quiet faith and deep roots in the pepper-rich lands of Kottayam. But his name survives not for what he owned, but for what he sought. francis itty cora

Itty Cora became obsessed with finding it. Legend says that around 1500 years before his