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In 1683, [[List of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch|Ignatius Abdul Messiah I]] Patriarch of Antioch, received a letter and later a delegation from [[Mar Thoma II]], [[Malankara Metropolitan|Archbishop of Malankara]], requesting clergymen to help against Portuguese attempts to subdue the Church of Malankara. The patriarch met with clergymen at the [[Mor Hananyo Monastery|Monastery of Saint Ananias]] in the following year to discuss the state of the Church of Malankara and decide whom to send, and Yeldo volunteered to travel to Malankara and thus resign as Maphrian.<ref name="St. George">''[http://www.stgeorgecheppaud.org/StBaseliosYeldho.htm St. Baselios Yeldho]''. St. George Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Cheppaud, Kerala, India</ref> The patriarch and others expressed concern at the health and age of the saint, however, the patriarch granted Yeldo permission to undertake the journey. He returned to the [[Mar Mattai Monastery|Monastery of Saint Matthew]] and made preparations for the journey to India. The monks Joea and Matthew, from the monasteries of Saint Matthew and Saint Behnam respectively, Bishop Ivanios Hidyat Allah, and Yeldo's brother Jamma joined him on the journey south to [[Basra]].<ref name="MSCR "/> | In 1683, [[List of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch|Ignatius Abdul Messiah I]] Patriarch of Antioch, received a letter and later a delegation from [[Mar Thoma II]], [[Malankara Metropolitan|Archbishop of Malankara]], requesting clergymen to help against Portuguese attempts to subdue the Church of Malankara. The patriarch met with clergymen at the [[Mor Hananyo Monastery|Monastery of Saint Ananias]] in the following year to discuss the state of the Church of Malankara and decide whom to send, and Yeldo volunteered to travel to Malankara and thus resign as Maphrian.<ref name="St. George">''[http://www.stgeorgecheppaud.org/StBaseliosYeldho.htm St. Baselios Yeldho]''. St. George Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Cheppaud, Kerala, India</ref> The patriarch and others expressed concern at the health and age of the saint, however, the patriarch granted Yeldo permission to undertake the journey. He returned to the [[Mar Mattai Monastery|Monastery of Saint Matthew]] and made preparations for the journey to India. The monks Joea and Matthew, from the monasteries of Saint Matthew and Saint Behnam respectively, Bishop Ivanios Hidyat Allah, and Yeldo's brother Jamma joined him on the journey south to [[Basra]].<ref name="MSCR "/> | ||
The group travelled by sea from Basra to [[Thalassery]] via [[Surat]], arriving in 1685, but due to the threat of the Portuguese and pirates, Yeldo and his entourage decided to continue their journey to Malakhachira (Present [[Kothamangalam]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of South Indian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=boMMAQAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Publication Division, University of Calicut|pages=84–85}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=In Quest of Kerala: Geography, places of interest, political history, social history, literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EXIeAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Accent Publications|page=57}}</ref> by land and in disguise. Whilst travelling, the group encountered a tiger, but was repelled when Yeldo made the sign of the cross in its direction, forcing it to flee. He later arrived at the village of [[Pallivasal]] and, with the knowledge a heavy flood would afflict the village in the night, advised the villagers to sleep in the hills. Those who followed the saint and his entourage into the hills survived whilst the animals and villagers who remained were drowned. Ivanios and Yeldo continued on to Kozhippilli, near Kothamangalam, where Ivanios agreed to hide in a tree until Yeldo returned as it was deemed unsafe to travel together.<ref name="MSCR "/> | The group travelled by sea from Basra to [[Thalassery]] via [[Surat]], arriving in 1685, but due to the threat of the Portuguese and pirates, Yeldo and his entourage decided to continue their journey to Malakhachira (Present [[Kothamangalam]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of South Indian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=boMMAQAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Publication Division, University of Calicut|pages=84–85}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=In Quest of Kerala: Geography, places of interest, political history, social history, literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EXIeAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Accent Publications|page=57}}</ref> by land and in disguise. Whilst travelling, the group encountered a tiger, but was repelled when Yeldo made the sign of the cross in its direction, forcing it to flee. He later arrived at the village of [[Pallivasal]] and, with the knowledge a heavy flood would afflict the village in the night, advised the villagers to sleep in the hills. Those who followed the saint and his entourage into the hills survived whilst the animals and villagers who remained were drowned. Ivanios and Yeldo continued on to Kozhippilli, near Kothamangalam, where Ivanios agreed to hide in a tree until Yeldo returned as it was deemed unsafe to travel together.<ref name="MSCR "/> | ||
