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Pope declares two Indians as saints

With this canonization, the Syro Malabar Catholic Church has three saints

Pope Francis on Sunday declared Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia Eluventhinkal from India as saints at the Vatican. Photo: AFPPremium
Pope Francis on Sunday declared Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia Eluventhinkal from India as saints at the Vatican. Photo: AFP

Vatican City: Pope Francis on Sunday declared Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia Eluventhinkal from India as saints at the Vatican.

With their canonization, as the finale of the long-drawn process is known in Catholic parlance, the centuries-old Syro Malabar Catholic Church has three saints, the first being Sister Alphonsa was raised to the rank in 2008. The two from Kerala were declared as saints during a special mass at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican, people in the Syro Malabar Catholic Church said in Vatican City.

According to church scholars, the Syro Malabar Church, which traces its origin to the visit of apostle St Thomas to the Kerala coast in the 1st century AD, is one of the 22 eastern churches in full communion with Rome. The Pope declared Chavara and Euphrasia as Saints during a special mass at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a moment shared in elation and spiritual fervour by churches across Kerala where the faithful thronged in large numbers for thanksgiving service and prayers.

A large number of devotees, two cardinals, bishops and clergy and nuns from Kerala attended the ceremony at the Vatican too. Three places closely associated with the lives of Chavara and Euprhasia at Mannman in Kottayam, Koonammavu in Ernakulam and Ollur in Thrissur have already been in a jubilant mood for the last several days.

The founder of the congregation Carmalites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805-1871) was more than a spiritual leader of the Syro Malabar Catholic community. Historians and church chroniclers consider him as a social reformer who gave a thrust to secular education of not only Catholics but also of children from other communities, especially the depressed classes. One of the first institutions he founded was a Sanskrit school.

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Published: 23 Nov 2014, 07:07 PM IST
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