Fr. Caussanel was the founder of the order of brothers of Sacred Heart of Jesus and one of the founders of St. Xaviers college , Palyamcottah through the portals of which many of our boys have passed through.

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Another remark truly worthy of notice — so extraordinary it is —, should be drawn from the fact that Paravas alone have survived all kingdoms, rulers, disasters, all persecutions, oppressions and contempts. The Cheras , Cholas, and Pandyas have vanished away, the mighty powers the Carnatic and Bisnagar (Vijayanagar) have gone, the empires of Delhi do exist only in annals of the times. The formidable armies of the great Moghul the Maharattas, the Naiks, the Nawabs of Arcot, have gone for ever. Portuguese and Dutch domination have come to a close. Hundred times the surface of India has changed ,its rulers and ruled. What caste could claim a single corner of the territory not for the last 3000 years but for one thousand and less. The Paravas alone remain on their Paralia amongst the universal ruins accumulated all around. They continue to be fishermen and fishers of pearls. You may dispossess the Poligars. and Pattadars of their estates, You may deprive the ghats of its forests, You will not deprive the Paralia of its Paravas. You may free their villages and reduce to ashes their boats and do as Salmanasar and Nabuchodosor did with the inhabitants of Israel of Judea who were dispersed in Assyria, and Mesopotomia by these tyrants. You may replace the Paravas by what sort of people you like; the Paravas will not lose their Paralia……. England lost its Aborigines ; so did Spain; and Italy and all countries. The Paralia keeps its aborigines. The Gulf of Mannar is still their kingdom. Contemplate one morning the the whole sea from Cape Comarin to Manapad covered with boats mounted by Paravas who joyfully sing the powers of God and say whether the Paralia has passed to strangers.

It is on record that the Pearl Fishery was going on from the first century after Christian era.

One famous Greek Mariner by the year 80 A.D. went round the whole Arabian Sea from the mouth of the Red Sea to the Bay of Bengal and wrote the details of this circumnavigation in a book known as Periplus Maris. This book describes the Paralia as starting south of Quilon and proceeding to the Korkai emporium through the Cape of Comarin. The ghats ridges are called Pyrrhos. He calls Korkai, the head quarters of the pearl fishery. We have gone through the Christian centuries,but before Christ the Pearl Fishery did exist on the Paralia.