The Coonen Cross Revolt
The imposition of western norms in matters of religion among the Syrian Christians was resented by a section of the Syrian Christian community and they revolted against the Potuguese supremacy, which is usually referred to as the Coonen Cross Revolt of 1653 A.D. Yet the decrees of the Synod of Diamper were passed on to the posterity as the Canon Law of the Syrians of Malabar and were recognised as such by the Propaganda under the Pope. ( See Cardinal Eugene Tisserant,“Eastern Christianity in India” at 166. This state of affairs continued for some time, exceptions notwithstanding. And as regards declaration of nullity of marriage the Church could do the same as is evident from the book on the “Anthropology of the Syrian Christians.”by Rao Bhadur L. K. Ananthakrishna Ayyar.
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