Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankaresi (TRIVANDRUM DEI SIRO-MALANKARESI)

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

TRIVANDRUM of the SYRO-MALANKARESE — H. E. Mâr Ivanios, archbishop of T., receives the profession of faith of some schismatic Jacobites of Malabar (7 March 1936).

nary and carried out restoration work and additions in the Cathedral; the other was professor of theology at the University of Naples, rebuilt the façade of the Duomo, and reorganized the diocesan associations. Patrons of the diocese are the holy martyrs Nazario, Celso, and Vittore.
MONUMENTS. — The small town, held in fief successively by the d'Evoli, Caldora, Requescus, D'Afflitto, and finally the Caracciolo, offers no notable monument other than the Cathedral dedicated to SS. Nazario, Celso, and Vittore, which, according to legend, stands upon an ancient monument to Diana. The crypt with its apses, built in the Romanesque period (12th century?), is dedicated to S. Casto.

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