Martholm

Marholm

Marholm is a civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. West of Peterborough and one mile from the seat of the Fitzwilliam family at Milton Hall. The parish coversread more... some 1,400 acres, with the village positioned roughly in the centre. For electoral purposes it forms part of Northborough ward in North West Cambridgeshire constituency.read less...

Freyja

In Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is acread more...companied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses a cloak of falcon feathers. By her husband Óðr, she is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi. Along with her twin brother Freyr, her father Njörðr, and her mother, she is a member of the Vanir. Stemming from Old Norse Freyja, modern forms of the name include Freya, Freyia, and Freja.read less...

Marthoma Residential School, Tiruvalla

Mar Thoma Residential School (MTRS) is a co-educational institution located at Kuttapuzha, in the town of Tiruvalla, Kerala, India, 1km from the town centre. It is affiliated to the Indian Certificateread more... of Secondary Education and follows the ICSE syllabus. Enrolment is approximately 1600 students with a staff of 70 teachers. The medium of teaching is English. The school has a teachers training institute.read less...

Thomas the Apostle

Thomas the Apostle, also called Didymus ("twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he doubted Jesus' resurreread more...ction when first told of it ; later, he confessed his faith on seeing Jesus' crucifixion wounds.read less...

Saint Thomas Christians

The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Marthoma Nasrani, Malabar Nasrani, Malankara Nasrani or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians fromread more... the state of Kerala, who currently employ the East Syriac and West Syriac liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity. They trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. The Saint Thomas Christians had been historically a part of the hierarchy of the Church of the East but are now divided into several different Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and independent bodies, each with their own liturgies and traditions. They are Malayali people and speak the Malayalam language. Nasrani or Nazarene is a Syriac term for Christians, who were among the first converts to Christianity in the Near East.read less...

Marthoma Church, Cheppad

The Mar Thoma Syrian Church at Cheppad established in the last decade of the 19th century as a result of the purification movement or in Malayalam Naveekaranam/Shucheekaranam in the Malankara Church. read more...It was against the theological teachings that came into the Syrian church due to the Roman Catholic rule and influence.read less...