Arakuzha was ruled by small land lords who owned slaves servants and soldiers according to old writings and verbal traditions. This was a treasure chest of traditional Christian faith and Christian culture. The christian history of this village goes back at least to more than thousand years. The early Christians were converted Christians from high class Hindu community. They kept the matriarchal system until modern era. Even though the majority were Christians, we could see the influence of their past Hindu traditions and practices. The Catholic church was built for thousand “Mappilai” Christians in AD 999 according to the written documents. For 1000 Christians (Ayiram mappilamarkuvendi ayirathil vacha palli), it was erected in 999 A.D. at Aarakuzha.
It is said to be built by a prevalent matriarchal patroness called “Rathappilli Mutthi”. The story is as follows. The Catholic Church at Aarakzha was erected by Rathappalli muthi who was a housewife from the famous Rathappilli family. She initiated the establishment of the church because of the difficulty to travel to Mailakombu to attend the Holy Mass. It is said by some people that the church was founded by Orathelmuthi. The real family name of the lady was Orathel. Orathel family came to be known as Rathappilli in later years because it was this family of traders that first used ‘rathal’ ;a measuring unit for weighing things. The nearest church was at Mylakkombu which was 20 kilometers away from Arackuzha. The Arackuzha Christians used to attend Sunday mass at Mylakkombu church. The new vicar at Mylakkombu changed the time of the mass to an early hour. So the nazranis from Arackuzha could not attend the Sunday mass in time and manner. So the Rathappilli mutthi visited the then bishop Sabor and got permission to build a church at Arackuzha. The ruler of Arackuzha gave the land and support to build a church at Arackuzha near their temple. Later a church was erected on Koodathil (Kucadathil) parampu where the present High School is situated. Later the church was abandoned due to the hostilities of Puthattel Unniathiry and the property of the church was shifted to Memadangu which was under the authority of Chettoor Kartha and worship was resumed there. In course of time the old church and the cemetery were forgotten.