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Sister Alphonsa to be declared saint

KOCHI: The Catholic Church has decided to canonize Sister Alphonsa.

The date of canonization will be decided by a Consistory of Cardinals on March 1, said a Church press release here on Monday.

Sister Alphonsa, who died at the age of 36 in 1946, was recognised as a saintly person during her lifetime itself. People who knew her sought her intercession soon after her death and many “miraculous healings” have been received at her tomb at Bharananganam, near Kottayam, the press release said.

She was born in the Kudamalloor parish in Kottayam district and studied at the Arpookkara and Muttuchira government school near Kottayam. Annakutty, as she was named at baptism, joined the Clarist convent in 1927 and took the name of Alphonsa. The process of her beatification was inaugurated in 1953. The process saw its culmination in 1984 when Pope officially declared that she had practiced Christian virtues heroically. A miracle wrought through her intercession was formally approved by the Pope in 1985. And she was beatified in 1986.

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