Late His Beatitude
Mar Baselius Yeldho

After Mar Thoma I and Mar Gregorios Abdul Jaleel entered eternal rest, Catholics started creating problems for the church. In 1683, Mar Thoma II, the bishop of the Malabar Syrian Church sent a letter to the Patriarch, through one Joseph, a Syrian trade magnate from the Middle-East, requesting to bless the Church in Malankara by deputing a Metropolitan and four Malpans to counteract the destructive activities of the Romo-Syrians and to defend the Holy faith. In the same year a deputation from Malankara waited on the patriarch at Kurkuma Dayaro(Deir-al-Zaffran) in Mardin with a request for Metropolitans for safeguarding the faith and the Apostolic Succession.

Tomp Of Mar Baselius Yeldho at Kothamangalam

"Remember your forefathers,who spoke God's message to you.
Think back on how they lived and died,and imitate their faith.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and for ever."

The scene at the Kurkuma Dayaro is briefly described by Mor Athanasius Aphrem Paulose, Metropolitan of Beirut in his work, "Seemakkaraya Pithakanmar". In 1684, Patriarch Ignatius Abdul Masiah I consecrated Holy Mooron in the Kurkuma Dayaro, assisted by Mor Baselius Yeldho, Maphrian of the East and other Metropolitans. Before their departure, the Patriarch in touching words acquainted them with the affairs of the Malankara Church and of the visit of the deputation. Immediately Mor Baselius, a native of Bakudaida, Karakosh, near Mosul volunteered to go to Malankara, relinquishing his administrative charge there. His self-sacrificing decision was praised by all. Mor Baselius, made arrangements at Mar Mathai Dayaro and started the long journey to a region totally unknown to him.He was accompanied by his brother, Jamma, Rembans Joea and Mathai and the newly consecrated Ivanios Hidayathulla Episcopa. They traveled the route via Basrah.