1944

The Rosarian Fathers at Fatima Giri

The Rosarian congregation — the Servants of the Rosary, founded in Jaffna in 1928 — records that its first house in India, the Fatima Giri Ashram, was established here in 1944 by Antony Susainather, whom the order honours as a Servant of God. That this village is the birthplace of the Rosarians in India rests on the order's own account alone. The Fathers still keep their house at Fatima Giri, and with the Servite and Bethany Sisters they remain part of parish life today.

Parish traditionThis moment rests on 2 sources.
Rosarians (CR)
the first house of the Rosarians in India, the Fatima Giri Ashram, was established at Vadakkankulam in 1944 by Antony Susainather

Fatimagiri Ashram, VadakkankulamThe congregation's own website

A published web source. We quote it and link to it.

What this source establishes

The SOLE witness for the 1944 foundation, and the source of the title "Servant of God" — which is the congregation's own usage, with no decree of the Holy See in evidence. The diocese's own biography of Bishop Roche tells it differently, crediting the Ashram's establishment to Roche.