Samuel Rayan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samuel Rayan was a Jesuit priest and the first indian liberation theologian. Biography Rayan was born in the village of Kumbalam in Kollam District, Kerala into a family of eight children . Rayan joined the Jesuit novitiate in 1939 and was ordained Catholic priest in 1955, taking his final vows as a Jesuit in 1958. He devoted many years to the study of Malayalam literature, mastered Sanskrit, and was well read in Indian religions and philosophy. He completed his theological studies in De Nobili College in Pune, before his doctorate in Rome.
