On the feast of the Mother of God, Greogorios temporarily consecrated the church and celebrated the divine Eucharist in the presence of Dionysius.

Dionysios eventually passed the responsibility for the seminary to Mar Gregorios in order to carry on the Syriac teaching sessions more efficiently and also to help him in other church matters.

[5] This church contains the tomb of the first canonized Christian saint from India,[6][7] Geevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala,[8] who died on 2 November 1902 at the age of 54.

[10] Abraham Verghese of the New York Times wrote about his visit to the church saying Mar Gregorios’s benevolent image — a cross in one hand and a scepter in the other — had stared down at me from the wall of our house in Africa when I grew up; it now hangs in my study in Palo Alto.

"[15] The icon behind the throne includes Christ in the center, to the left, His Mother, Yoldath Aloho Mariam (Theotokos), to the right, the forerunner, Mor Yuhanon Mam'domo (Saint John the Baptist).