The Congregation for the cause of the Saints has announced the approval of sainthood for Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception, the first saint who lived and died in India. Card. Vithayathil invites ...

It was the "miraculous cure" of a boy with clubfoot that led to her canonisation. She will be bestowed sainthood on October 12 this year - ahead of Mother Teresa. Alphonsa was strikingly beautiful in ...

KOCHI: On January 26, 1984, Thomas Mundakel and his wife Mary went to the tomb of St. Alphonsa at Bharananganam. Mary had been suffering from an eye ailment for a long time and when she prayed to Sr ...

Nearly 10,000 people, mostly Keralite Christians, are expected to participate in the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa in Vatican on October 12. Pope Benedict XVI will declare Sister Alphonsa, who was ...

Thousands of Catholics in Kerala are hoping that Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in Kerala in July next year to declare the Blessed Alphonsa a saint. HT Image The Pope cleared the way for the ...

Thousands of Indian Catholics cheered waving their national flag in St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception and called for an end to ...

Nearly 10,000 people, mostly Keralite Christians, are expected to participate in the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa in Vatican on October 12. Nearly 10,000 people, mostly Keralite Christians, are ...

Till a few days back, very few people outside Kerala would have heard of Sister Alphonsa. But now, almost 100 years after her birth, she will be canonised by the Vatican. The Sister became the blessed ...

She was a Clarist nun who led a simple, humble life marked by physical suffering she dedicated to God. Blessed Sister Alphonsa was little known during her 36 years on earth, but after her death in ...

Vatican: Kerala nun 'Blessed' Alphonsa is now Saint Alphonsa after she was canonised by Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony at St Peter's Square on Sunday, becoming the first Indian woman saint. She is ...

Three churches in the United States were named after Sister Alphonsa even before her canonization by Pope Benedict XVI on October 12 in Vatican. Parishioners at the Saint Alphonsa Church in San ...