Itty Cora | Francis

Itty Cora became obsessed with finding it.

The moment it was lifted, the story takes its strange turn: no human hand could pull it fully from the ground. Itty Cora fell to his knees in prayer, and only then, the cross rose—dripping with soil and glory. When they cleaned it, they saw not just the old Pahlavi, but what seemed like a vision of Christ etched into the stone by time itself.

He was a 16th-century Syrian Christian from the Knanaya community, a man of quiet faith and deep roots in the pepper-rich lands of Kottayam. But his name survives not for what he owned, but for what he sought.