1775–1838
Sixty-three years without a Jesuit
For sixty-three years after the last Jesuit father, Clement Thomassini, died in 1775, no Jesuit served Vadakkankulam. It was not left to itself. Bishop Caldwell's history records that the Jesuits left in Tinnevelly, this parish among them, "died one by one, and their places were supplied by native priests from Goa." The parish's own roll names the pastors who followed under the Bishop of Cochin — Deva Varadhanar, Ignatius, John Louis Cardoza and their successors.
In English
"The ranks of the old missionaries of the Maduré were thinning more and more, and the replacements they called for with all their prayers did not arrive. Goa, it is true, sent them its priests; but the seminaries of Goa had lost their old directors."
What this source establishes
The thinning of the old missionaries and the arrival of Goanese priests, from the Jesuit side.