The true branch...

[visionary]

Widespread and enduring was the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath among the believers of the Church of the East and the St. Thomas Christians of India. It was also maintained by the Abyssinians.

As an ethnic community they refer to themselves as Nasranis referring to the common cultural heritage and cultural tradition. However as a religious group they refer to themselves as the Mar Thoma Khristianis or in English as Saint Thomas Christians referring to their religious tradition, despite a common ancestry of being the descendants of the early Mar Thoma church or Saint Thomas tradition of Christianity. Menachery G; 1973, 1998; Mundalan, A. M; 1984; Podipara, Placid J. 1970; Leslie Brown, 1956

 

[visionary]

The Nasranis are an ethnic Jewish believers in Yeshua and in that sense a single community. However the Nasranis have various denominations as a result of Portuguese persecution. Claudius Buchanan, 1811., Menachery G; 1973, 1998; Mundalan, A. M; 1984; Podipara, Placid J. 1970; Leslie Brown, 1956

 

[visionary]

Thomas Christians had such a strong sense of caste and tradition, being the oldest order of Christianity in India. The archdeacon was the head of the Church, and Palliyogams (Parish Councils) were in charge of temporal affairs. They had a liturgy-centered life with days of fasting and abstinence. Their devotion to the Mar Thoma Cross was absolute. Their churches were modelled after Jewish synagogues.

In short, the St. Thomas Christians of Kerala had blended well the ecclesiastical world of the East Syriac Church with the socio-cultural environment of their homeland. Thus, the East Syriac Church was South Indian in culture, Christian in religion, and Judeo-Syro-Oriental in worship. Menachery G; 1973, 1998; Leslie Brown, 1956; Vellian Jacob 2001; Poomangalam C.A 1998; Weil,S. 1982

 

[visionary]

Although it is not known when St. Patrick was born, it is known he lived in around 400 AD. Many think of St. Patrick as a catholic saint, but he never was a catholic but rather of a Celtic faith. A Sabbath keeping, feast keeping, etc that is a slap in the face of catholicism on many points as it is a tribute to Judaism and biblical faith.

"Saint Patrick" and the Early Celtic Church: Sunday-Keeping Catholics or Sabbath-observant Christians?

 

[visionary]

"It seems to have been customary in the Celtic churches of early times, in Ireland as well as Scotland, to keep Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, as a day of rest from labor. They obeyed the fourth commandment literally upon the seventh day of the week." (James C. Moffatt, D. D.,The Church in Scotland, Philadelphia: 1882, p.140)

 

[visionary]

"In this latter instance they seemed to have followed a custom of which we find traces in the early monastic church of Ireland by which they held Saturday to be the Sabbath on which they rested from all their labours." (W.T. Skene, Adamnan Life of St. Columba, 1874, p.96)

 

[visionary]

There was a growing distance being placed between the Sabbath keeping believers and the Sunday keepers. By the time of Constantine, it was the final straw. Anti-Semitism of the "Church Fathers" http://www.yashanet.com/library/fathers.htm

 

[psalms 91]

Yup many things got lost because of the blend ing of Christianity andpaganism

 

[visionary]

Just in case anyone thought there was only Catholics for faith until Protestants... I just wanted you to know there has always been the faithful few.