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The History of Devasahayam Pillai Servant of God Led a Life Worthy of a Candidate Attests to the Regard That the Faithful and the for Martyrdom His Life During Years of Torture: church, it is significant that the Servant of God During the years of his arrest and torture, the lies buried in a most revered church, a fact that The History of Devasahayam Pillai Servant of God led a life worthy of a candidate attests to the regard that the faithful and the for martyrdom. Every morning and night he clergy had towards his sanctity and towards the dedicated time to contemplative prayer, and often greatness of his martyrdom. during the day he turned to God in moments of Devotion to the Servant of God: brief prayer. He also spent time reading books Ever since the death of the Servant of God, many, on the lives of the saints, and when people were irrespective of caste or religion, started to visit around, he read them aloud. He fasted on all the place of his death and prayed to him for Fridays and Saturdays in honour of the death of favours. Soon a small church was constructed Christ and of Mary, the Mother of God. When a at Kattadimalai and was dedicated to Our Lady priest visited him, usually at the dead of night, of Sorrows, in remembrance of his heroic death he confessed his sins and received the Holy for faith. The life of Devasahayam is being acted Eucharist with utmost devotion. The priests were out in dramas, sung out in Villupattu and narrated impressed by the joy and consolation that the in folklore. Thus, the message of his life and Servant of God experienced. death and devotion to him spread throughout Killed for Faith: Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Considering the Servant Devasahayam had to be killed quickly and of God as a saint, several people began to name secretly because large numbers of Catholics themselves Devasahayam and the practice started visiting the Servant of God. Government continues to this day. officials kept secret the place and the date of his Canonisation Process: execution for fear of popular unrest. Finally, a The canonisation process comprises a number little before midnight on January 14, 1752, they of phases, such as the Preliminary Phase, the took him to the place of execution. As he was Introductory Phase, the Diocesan and the totally exhausted and unable to walk he was Roman phase ; among which the diocesan carried to the nearby hill called Kattadimalai. phase had five sections. Currently in the Roman There he knelt and prayed for a while intensely. phase, The Congregation for the Causes of The marks left by his knees and elbows can still Saints appointed Fr. Zdzislaw Kijas, OFM. as be seen today. Then he was shot dead by the “Relator” for the Cause of Devasahayam Pillai soldiers with five leaden bullets, at midnight (July 9, 2010) and Msgr. John Kulandai as between 14 and 15 January 1752. “External Collaborator” for the Cause of Burial: Devasahayam Pillai. Monsignor’s task, as His body was thrown in between rocks and left prescribed by the norms of the Congregation, there to be eaten by wild animals. His mortal consists of collaborating with the Relator in the remains were discovered by Christians and preparation of the text of the ‘Positio’.” The two buried in front of the main altar in the most appointments mentioned above are expediting important church of St. Francis Xavier, which is the process. 1712 - 1752 the present Cathedral of the Diocese of Kottar. While laypersons are not usually buried within a The History of Devasahayam Pillai Finding De Lannoy’s explanation reasonable and Tested for Faith: Birth and Boyhood: convincing, Nilakanda Pillai expressed his desire Although some Brahmins and court officials tried The Servant of God, Devasahayam, was born to become a Christian and requested that De their best to woo the Servant of God back from in 1712. Being Hindu, he was given the name Lannoy instruct him for baptism. De Lannoy sent his newly-won Christian faith, Devasahayam Neelam (Nilam), and was also known as him to Vadakkankulam, a hamlet outside the showed great fortitude in expressing firmness Nilakandan. As he belonged to the royal Nair caste limits of the Kingdom of Travancore, with a letter of faith and even daringly declared that he was he is also popularly known as Devasahayam to Fr. Giovanni Baptista Buttari, a Jesuit willing to be tortured, or even to be put to death Pillai. Growing up, he learnt Sanskrit and had Missionary, requesting him to baptise for Christ. traditional training in martial arts. Nilakandan. Persecuted for Faith: Youth and Marriage: Fearing that Baptism would spell suffering and Having been incited against Christians, the king persecution, Fr. Buttari hesitated for some time Nilam was brought up as a devout Hindu. arrested Devasahayam on 23 February 1749, to baptise him. Fr. Buttari examined his past life Besides Tamil and Malayalam, the languages of putting him in a very strict prison. Soon, in order to instruct him and to test the maturity his people, he also trained himself in condemned to death by the king, he was tortured of his decision and the depth of his conviction in Varmasastra, archery and the use of weapons in several ways. He was paraded in many towns the Catholic faith. This instruction continued for of war. He was made an official at the royal court nine months. Finally, moved by the persistence and villages, both hands bound behind his back, at Padmanabhapuram. He was respected for his of Nilakanda Pillai, he baptised him at the church seated on a buffalo facing backward and personal sincerity and firmness of mind, which of the Holy Family, Vadakkankulam on 14 May garlanded with Erukku flowers as a symbol of endeared him to his colleagues and to King 1745. At Baptism, the Servant of God was given shame. Marthanda Varma. He married Bargaviammal of the name “Devasahayam,” which is a Tamil Some Miraculous Events: Mekkod, a neighbouring village. rendering of the biblical name Lazar, which The Servant of God was brought through a small Conversion and Baptism: means, “God has helped” place called Puliurkurichy where overcome by In performing his duties as a palace official, Life after Baptism: thirst he planted his elbow on a rock, which gave Neelam Pillai came into contact with a Catholic, Having joined the Catholic community, forth water which he could drink. This rock Eustachius Benedictus De Lannoy, a Dutch Devasahayam himself started exhorting others continues to give water even today and people military officer, arrested by King Marthandavarma to receive Baptism and even converted some to visit this fountain in large numbers. After after the Dutch were defeated at the Port of the Christian faith, one of them being his own Puliurkurichy, the soldiers brought him to Colachel in 1741. At one stage of their wife, who took the name “Gnanapu” which is a Peruvilai and detained him there for about 7 relationship, Nilakanda Pillai was found to be Tamil rendering of “Theresa”. In his personal life, months, tied to a neem tree. It is there that extremely unhappy and sad. Following De the neophyte Devasahayam mixed and mingled Devasahayam became friendly with the soldiers Lannoy’s enquiry about his sadness, he narrated with people of all statuses and castes. His newly and met the Catholic priests, from whom he a series of tragedies that had overtaken his found faith caused him to disregard caste received Holy Communion. Thanks to family. His bulls had died one after another and distinction, throw away the symbols of his “high” Devasahayam’s prayer, the gaoler (executioner) crops had failed, which meant tremendous caste, eat and live with people of “low” birth and whose wife had been without child for a long time financial loss for him, causing immeasurable come to the palace office as a “polluted” person. fathered a child. From Peruvilai, Devasahayam sadness. On hearing all this, De Lannoy told him Noticing the marked changes in Devasahayam was taken to the prison at Aralvaimozhi, where the Old Testament story of Job and because of his Christian life, high caste people demonstrated how God tested the faith of a good accused him of the crime of betrayal and condemned criminals were sent to death by the man through suffering. contempt of religious practices and of insulting king. It was on the border between the kingdoms the gods, the Brahmins and the royal throne. of Madurai and Travancore..
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