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missionary. Ringeltaube was moved at the plight of the social out-castes of South
Travancore. He worked among them and in May 1809 laid the foundation for a church in Mylaudy. Within four months the Church Construction Work was completed. In September, 1809 Ringeltaube dedicated the first Protestant
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Ringeltaube suffered many hardships. For three years he struggled to get permission to build a church in
Mylaudy. He suffered a lot from physical abuse. He was found to have lost strength in the body due to frequent illnesses. Living in a simple house without the best nutritious food, without good
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Mylaudy. While traveling, he knelt down, prayed, and drank the water that had accumulated on the rock at Kozhikottupottai. that day onwards it become spring. When the pastor was preaching to the people at Ammandi vilai on February 25, 1810. He took a child who came near him and put
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Vedamonikam, the first Protestant Christian from Mylaudy, was baptized by Rev. Kohlhoff and he invited Ringeltaube. Once Ringeltaube reached Tharangam padi, Maharasan Vedamanickam took him to Travancore. His ministries were building schools, orphanages, job training and proclaiming the
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Everything written to her sister in these letters is seen as tragic. Despite the tragedy in his letter, he did not regret it, except that he was glad to be an evangelist. In the letters he refers to himself as a parasite, a helpless, old man. Through letters he learns that he had invited his
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The first
Protestant missionary to South Travancore was William Tobias Ringeltaube of the LMS, who arrived at the Aruvaimozhi Pass on April 25, 1806. Ringeltaube received an invitation from Maharasan Vedamonikam of Mylaudy, who had been converted to Christianity in Tanjore by Rev. Kohlhoff, an
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182:, in Silesia. There, the young boy attended the Gymnaesium, but the boy was naturally shy and shunned all interaction with fellow students. In his 18th year he went on a walking tour, on which he made many friends. During this time, he made the decision to become a
143:, Prussia. He was born on 8 August 1770. The cause and date of his death are uncertain, but it is widely believed that he died of liver failure whilst on a voyage to Africa. Others believe that he was killed by the natives whilst on a mission to
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The exact circumstances of his death are unknown. The most common belief is that he died of liver failure on the voyage to South Africa and was buried at sea. Proof of this was written on the ship's daily diary as
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There was a famine for several months in 1813. He went to
Mylaudy and prayed fervently and then came out and looked at the sky. It immediately rained. Everyone was amazed at the strength of the pastor's prayers.
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him down. Immediately the child walked away. Those present were amazed as the leg-crippled child walked away from the pastor. Later only did the pastor learn that the child had a leg deformity.
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Five days after his birth he was baptized and given the name
William Tobias Ringeltaube. For seven years Ringeltaube grew up in the quietness of a country home; after this his father went to
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on 5 February 1816. When the ship arrived at
Manakudi, He remembered; the debt he had written on the wall of his house. He commented the sailor to stop the ship and he travelled to
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on the way to Monday market. All church has a history of more than 200 years. Thamaraikulam church is 5 km from
Kanyakumari. Ananthanadarkudy church is 7 km from Nagercoil.
654:, article by Beena Dominic and Dr. C. Amritha Jothi, published in the International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 2, Issue 10, October-2011
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There was a well on the south side of the Church and dig a pond a short distance away from the church and solved the water problem, for the benefit of the people of
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Ringeltaube Memorial Higher Secondary School in Mylaudy are named after him; the CSI also holds an Ringeltaube Convention and an annual memorial service.
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Possibly the last letter of Rev. Ringeltaube to someone, asking to forward another enclosed letter to his sister (Dated on 24 September 1816, from Malacca)
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facilities , without good clothes. He walked around with a simple straw hat on his head and spread the gospel.
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