1749
Foundation of the first stone church
In 1749 Fr Buttari held the kankol (foundation-stone) festival for a larger, lasting church, for the Catholic community had grown too great for de Britto's old thatched shelter. The parish's own history says it was raised of broad bricks brought from Perungudi. It was the beginning of the first permanent church here, whose bell, half a century later, would summon the village to the weeping of Our Lady.
In English
"Fr Bouttari, who baptised Devasahayam… He administered the Christian community of Vadakencoulam and laid the foundations of its present church; he left that country to replace Fr Thomassin in the district of Aour."
What this source establishes
The documented core, and all of it: Fr Buttari "laid the foundations of its present church". Bertrand gives NO year. The 1749 date, the kankol festival and the fabric of the building are all parish-side — which is why this dot is tiered tradition, not documented.