The first person to wear the Skimo "hood" was St.Antonios, the founder of monasticism. It is a traditional costume of Syrian, Coptic monks, and other oriental churches.

The Skimo symbolizes chastity, purity, forgetting the world and its materialism and looking only forward in order to save the soul and spirit, and attain eternal life.

1.The line separating the crosses in the half of the head reminds the monk of the story that happened to St.Antonios, the father of the monks, when the devil came and tried to tear the hood off his head and split it in two, so that St.Antonios sewed them together.

2.The large cross at the back of the head symbolizes the Lord Jesus Christ

3.The twelve crosses symbolize the disciples of the Lord Jesus, six on each side.

4.The thin line that starts from the front of the head and ends at the back of the head should always remind the monk of the narrow path full of paths that he will walk until he reaches Christ.

5.Symbolizes the crown of thorns that was placed on the head of Jesus Christ.

ഫാ.ഗീവർഗ്ഗീസ് കോശി പുത്തൻവീട്ടിൽ, പട്ടാഴി.