Samuel Rayan was born on July 23, 1920, in Kollam District, Kerala and died on January 2, 2019.
He was an Indian Roman Catholic theologian.
He was known as being a proponent of a form of liberation theology.
Samuel Rayan came from a family of eight children (2 girls and 6 boys).
During 1939 Rayan entered Jesuit order. Samuel Rayan was ordained priest on 24 March 1955.
Rayan devoted many years to the study of Malayalam literature. He mastered Sanskrit and is well read in Indian religions and philosophy.
During 1991, a Festschrift was published in his honor.
Bread and breath: essays in honour of Samuel Rayan, S.J., on the occasion of his seventieth birth anniversary included contributions by Gustavo Gutiérrez, George Soares-Prabhu, and Jon Sobrino.
Samuel Rayan passed away at 98 years old in Nirmala Hospital, Kozhikode in Kerala where he was undergoing old age ailments.
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