Background
Kuzhinapurath was born in 1904 near Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India.
Kuzhinapurath was born in 1904 near Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India.
Then he studied for priesthood at Doctor of Medicine He completed his intermediate education at C.M.S College, Kottayam.
He was the youngest child of Pakalomattom Kuzhinapurath Eapen and Kocheetha. He had his primary education in Government Middle School at Pathanamthitta. He was ordained deacon by the Orthodox Catholicos March Baselios in 1919.
Seminary, Kottayam, Kerala.
Kuzhinapurath continued his secular studies at Saint Thomas High School, Pala, Kerala. Kuzhinapurath joined the Bethany Ashram, the monastic order founded by Archbishop March Ivanios.
He made his first monastic profession and March Ivanios ordained him priest in 1929. He had a monastic formation of one year in the Carmelite Monastery at Trivandrum.
He served the Bethany Ashram as novice master and Superior General.
He worked in several mission centers at Thiruvalla and Trivandrum. He cycled several kilometers every day to do missionary and charitable work. He started the prayer centre at the T. B. Sanitorium at Pulayanarkotta, Trivandrum.
He wrote the book Sahana Yanjgam (Sacrificial Suffering).
Kuzhinapurath died on 28 January 1994. The Bethany Ashram published a special issue of Bethany Sabdam, a compilation of memories about Kuzhinapurath in 1995.
The death anniversary and commemoration of French John Kuzhinapurath Organisation of Islamic Cooperation was celebrated on 30 January 2010.
Thomas Kuzhinapurath and seven other priests from Kuzhinapurath family concelebrated Holy Qurbono at Bethany Ashram, Nalanchira, Trivandrum, where Kuzhinapurath is buried, followed by a commemoration meeting presided at by Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis.
Cleemis gave the first copy of the book Preshita Deepam, the biography of Kuzhinapurath, written by Peter C. Abraham, to George Onakkur. Baselios Cleemis said French John was truly a refuge to the poor and the destitute.