[2] A local belief having its origin in the late twentieth century states that Saint Thomas came to a region near present-day Kunnamkulam where Jews colonized.

Joseph Cheeran, a former vicar and influential priest in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church promulgated these ideas.

It is also said that St Thomas came to Judakunnu (Jew hill), there occurred a water scarcity in that area at that time.

[10] Antonio de Gouvea, a Portuguese missionary and chronicler of Dom Alexis de Menezes, records in his book "Jornada Dom Alexis de Menezes" about the church of Palur and other churches present nearby in the Kingdom of Zamorin: On his way he was given letters from the Cassanars and Vicars whom from the Synod he had sent to the church of Pallur (Palayur), dedicated to the glorious Saint Cyriac Martyr, the last of this Christian community on the Northern side, in the lands of the king Samorin five leagues from Panane (Ponnani), a place well-known to the Portuguese and to our fleets, which meant to them a big disturbance with which the devil had deceived all those people, and the people of Anamaque (Enammavu) and Mutem (Mattam) and Chatacolangaree (Chattukulangara or Arthat Kunnamkulam), all in the lands of the king Samorin, and close to each other...In 1772, Kattumangattu Bishop sent a letter to Sakthan Thampuran (Sakthan thampuran page 289) which states, in Thalappilli there was only one church existing in that region, which is the Chattukulangara palli.

1805 with the request of them, the then King of Cochin, Sakthan Thampuran himself came to Arthat church to resolve the problem.

It is said in folklores that Tippu's army killed a priest in the Altar room of this church and the blood spilled over there.

It is a very interesting circumstance, that there were no representatives of the Chátukulangare Syrians at the famous Synod of Udiamparur (Diamper.)

In 1806 the Arthat Padiyola (resolution) declared to break all the chains of Rome, Babil & Antioch.

[12] Colonel Macaulay has accompanied me thus far We first proceeded from Cochin to the famous Shanscrit college at Trichur and thence to a district of the Syrian Christians which I had not before visited.

It is about three times as large as a college gold medal and exhibits the baptism of Jesus in Jordan elegantly executed and on the reverse a child brought to be baptized.

They are now so respectable for number and opulence that the Rajah of Cochin is obliged to treat them with indulgence and the more so as they are within four miles of the English territories in Malabar, Nazarani Bazar as it is sometimes called is due east from Paniani and is near Palghutcheri.

The present cemetery wall was built with the initiative of Geevarghese Mar Gregorios of Malankara.

The church was earlier built in Kerala Architectural style thatched with coconut palm leaves.

Mar Dionysius II when he was a Ramban was instrumental in restructuring the church in the present state.