Rajakkamangalam Thurai is a village in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu state in South India, on the Arabian Sea.
Rajakkamangalam thurai is named after a pathway in the village that was used by local rulers to travel between Travancore and the Vaddakottai Palace.
When the Kanyakumari District joined Tamil Nadu, the village became Rajakkamangalam Thurai.
From 1758 to 1798, Rajakkamangalam thurai was part of the Travancore empire ruled by Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma .
(written by raja akl) As the three boys grew up, they plotted to kill their father.
In 1795, Rama varma learned of this plot and traveled to Rajakkamangalam thurai to kill them.
The boys fled to Melathurai, but Rama varma followed them there and murdered them in the coconut forest called pillaithopu (raja akl) There were Christians (only Paravar community peoples are living) in the village even before St. Francis Xavier arrived there.
The provincial who, then, shifted the House to Colachel feeling its inadequacy, Then only Paravar community peoples are migrated to Rajakkamangalam.
'Our Lady of Good Health' was so profound that the elders carried huge stones and other materials on their shoulders from miles away to extend the small church about 150 years ago.