1881–1919
P. V. Thommy Upadeshi, പി. വി. തൊമ്മി

Introduction

Born: 1881, Kun­nam­ku­lam, Ke­ra­la, In­dia.

Died: Ju­ly 10, 1919.

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Biography

Born in­to a ve­ry poor fa­mi­ly, Thom­my be­came a teach­er af­ter com­plet­ing his ba­sic edu­ca­tion.

After a few years of teach­ing, he be­came a full time ev­an­gel­ist in the Mar Tho­ma church. Rev. C. M. Jo­seph, vi­car of the Kun­nam­ku­lam Par­ish, en­cour­aged him in his Gos­pel work. Titus II Mar­tho­ma Me­tro­po­li­tan ap­point­ed him as an ev­an­gel­ist in Tri­chur and Pe­rum­ba­voor.

Though he lacked for­mal theo­lo­gic­al train­ing, he was a walk­ing en­cy­clo­pedia of the Bi­ble, which he had read ma­ny times. In due course of time, he learned Ta­mil.

In 1919, dur­ing a cho­le­ra out­break in Kun­nam­ku­lam where ma­ny died, Thom­my vol­un­teered to treat the pa­tients. He was ev­en­tu­al­ly in­fect­ed with cho­le­ra and died of the dis­ease.

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