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Mar Kauma Stands as a luminous star, in the heavenly abode of Saints and
Prophets. His strenuous ways of life and consistency in faith for God has bought
him the title ‘the angel of earth’. The word ‘Kauma’ means ‘standing in an erect
position’. The holy angel of God meditated in the shape of a cross on a tree and
hence got the name ‘Kauma’. He spent fourty five years of his life in solitude,
having little food to sustain life. |
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Mar Kauma’s parents were staunch believers in God. They lived in a place named ‘
Mecfrukth’. They were childless for a long period of time and were quite sad of
this. They prayed without ends and the Almighty blessed them with a son, who
later became the solace for millions, the holy saint Mar Kauma. |
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Shemavoon was the name given to the child and his sister was named as Agastia.
They were spoken of as supports for each other at every venture. When the
children grew they decided to dedicate their life for Christ. They left their
home and parents later and lead a lonely life. |
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They had several hoarding places in their way. Everywhere they were protected by
the arms of God through his messengers. Every experiences they had gone through
purified their life immensely and with the passage of years they became more and
more saintly. The transformation of ‘Shemavoon’ to ‘Kauma’ and ‘Agastia’ to
‘Folog’ happended in these periods of time. Folog was asked to disguise herself
as a male. Towards the end of Kauma’s life he got an assistant named ‘Yeshu’.
She was a female dressed as a man, just like Folog. |
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In the mountains of Mecfrukth, there lived a saint named ‘Gabroono’. He lived in
the top of a big tree. A stream was flowing near to the tree and it says that
the angels of God made the stream for the holy saint. He spend fifty three years
of his life in the tree, in intense fasting and prayers. Mar Kauma choose this
place to spend the rest of his life. He stayed in the hut at the top of the tree
and Agastia and Folog stayed at the bottom of the tree. Kauma became more
glorious during this time. He was served by the angels of God. Nobody was
allowed to enter into the hut. |
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After several years, one day Mar Kauma called Folog and Yeshu and said ‘my time
has come. My body should be left in the hut until my bones are done with in the
way God wants it to be”. The next time when they saw him they were surprised to
find him in a tree in the shape of a crux. They praised the almighty for what
they have seen and then the angel of the God appeared before them and revealed
the truth that Mar Kauma was praying for the last fourty five years in the shape
of crux. They also said that “God has given him to the people of the earth”.
From the very day he blesses humanity in ways enormous through his prayers. |
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