Just weeks after the nun from Kerala was canonized, a 90-minute biopic is set for release. CHENNAI: It's almost an early Christmas gift for Catholics, especially those in Kerala. And it's also a ...

The inauguration of the celebrations by President Patil. Card. Varkey Vithayathil stresses the value of the saint for our time: to return to God and give value to suffering. A world without God leads ...

Women just entering the Franciscan Clarists and others confirming their life commitment say India´s first woman saint inspired them to join Religious life. The story of Saint Alphonsa of the ...

Kerala nun Sister Alphonsa became Saint Alphonsa after she was canonised by Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony at St Peter's Square in Vatican City on Sunday, becoming the first Indian Catholic woman to ...

After decades, the Catholic community in Vallakkunnu can now bury its own in a two-storey mausoleum with nearly 400 burial ...

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 ...

BHARANANGANAM: Amid welling up of pious and fond thoughts of Saint Alphonsa as an eternal symbol of love, suffering and compassion, a commemorative coin in her name was released here on Sunday in the ...

Vatican City, Oct 12 (IANS) 'She suffered herself to heal the suffering of others,' is how Pope Benedict XVI poignantly described Kerala nun Sister Alphonsa while declaring her a saint at a ...

Chennai: Kerala nun Sister Alphonsa became the first Indian woman saint around 1.42 pm (IST) on Sunday, when Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed her and three others as saints at a special ceremony held at ...

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday released a set of commemorative coins to mark the birth centenary of the first Indian woman Catholic Saint Alphonsa, who was canonized in Vatican last ...