Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu | |
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Born | 19 August 1910 |
Died | 28 July 1946 | (aged 35)
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Beatified | 8 February 1986 |
Canonized | 12 October 2008, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI |
Major shrine | St. Mary's Syro-Malabar Church, Bharananganam, Kerala, India |
Feast | 28 July |
Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, FCC (born Anna Muttathupadathu; 19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946), was a religious sister in the Franciscan Clarist Congregation. She was also known for being a victim soul, visionary and prophetess[citation needed] in the Kottayam pergunna of the erstwhile Travancore province of British India, in present-day Kerala, India.
She is the first woman of Indian origin to be canonised as a saint, coming after decades of enquiry by the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints.[1] She is also the first saint of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic community of Eastern Christianity.
In the 1990s, a postal stamp commemorating Alphonsa was published by Kerala state's former minister, K. Karunakaran.[2] She is the first woman keralite to appear on an Indian stamp.
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