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It is an application for St.Sebastian's Church Panayampala in Kottayam,Kerala. The purpose of the application is for accessing the website of church easily. The users can get all the updations about the parish through this application.
According to his legend, St. Sebastian was born at Narbonne, Gaul. He is patron of archers, athletes, and soldiers, and is appealed to for protection against plagues.He is patron saint of athletes because of his physical endurance and his energetic way of spreading and defending the Faith. Sebastian is also patron to all soldiers. He entered the Roman army under Emperor Carinus in 283 in order to defend the confessors and martyrs of his day without drawing attention to himself. His efforts kept the Faith of Marcus and Marcellian firm during their persecutions, right up to the time of their martyrdom. He was declared patron of plague sufferers of his reported cures of those afflicted with many diseases.
In the first decade of the 19th Century a small group of Roman Catholic families from a larger group who kept shifting their habitat from one place to another, settled on the banks of a small river in central Travancore. This stream flowed from the Nedumkunnam hills through the plains of a beautiful land making it fertile and fruitful and finally dissolved into the folds of the Manimala river at Kaviyoor. As this stream flowed through a land which was thickly populated with a combination of Pana [Palm] and Pala ( Alstonia scholaris) trees the land was popularly known as Panayampala and naturally the stream also shared the same name and was known Panayampala thodu.
Panayampala is a South East border village of Kottayam district situated in Changanaserry taluk, close to Anickad a village in the Pathanamthitta district border. The Karukachal-Mallapally road passes parallel to the Panayampala thodu and the village lies spread on both sides of the thodu.
Christians from all congregations like Orthodox, Marthoma and Catholic are found in Panayampala and some are the descendents of the ancient Pakalomattam Brahmin family from Palayoor in Kodungaloor who accepted the Christian faith from St.Thomas way back in AD 52.
As the community comprised of faithful believers in the Holy Gospel and Pappel controlled Roman Catholic congregations, the practical fulfillment of their spiritual requirements were met by the St. Johns Baptist church Nedumkunnam under Changanaserry diocese which is about 4 kms away from Panayampala.

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