St Cashmir's Church, Kadavoor, Kollam

Tradition has it that quilon was the site of one of the seven Christian communities set up by St. Thomas The Apostle. That quilon had been the main center of activity of the Fracsiscian and Dominican Missionaries since the later half of the 13th century is but part of modern history.

This is the only Church in India dedicated to The Patrionage of ST.CASIMIR.

On 19th August1932 Pope John XXII constituted quilon as an Episcopal see, the first diocese in the Indies established by the Holy see and the only in the country at that time.

A small community, that embraced christienity in AD 54 by St.Thomas The Apostle in quilon existed in kadavoor.
History says that THEVALLY was the port at that time and was a center of St.Thomas Christians.
The Christian immegrates from syria engeged in trade, other Christian trade and missionaries who elited at quilon on their way to the Indies, enlightened and boosted the Christian faith existed here.!!!