Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu : Marth Anna : (Malayalam: അല്ഫോന്സാ മുട്ടത്തുപാടത്ത്; Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception; 19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946) is a Catholic Saint, the second person of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Oriental-rite Catholic Church. On Sunday, 12 October 2008, Pope Benedict XVI announced her canonization at a ceremony at St Peter's Square.
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| - Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu : Marth Anna : (Malayalam: അല്ഫോന്സാ മുട്ടത്തുപാടത്ത്; Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception; 19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946) is a Catholic Saint, the second person of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Oriental-rite Catholic Church. On Sunday, 12 October 2008, Pope Benedict XVI announced her canonization at a ceremony at St Peter's Square.
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| - Saint Alphonsama Church, Bharananganam, Kerala, India.
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| - Bharananganam, Palai, Kerala, India)
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| - Marth Anna or St. Alphonsa Muttathupadathu or St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception
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| - Marth Anna or Saint Alphonsa
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| - First Indian woman Christian Saint
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| - Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu : Marth Anna : (Malayalam: അല്ഫോന്സാ മുട്ടത്തുപാടത്ത്; Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception; 19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946) is a Catholic Saint, the second person of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Oriental-rite Catholic Church. Alphonsamma, as she was locally known, was born in Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Palai.She had a poor, difficult childhood and experienced early loss and suffering. She joined the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, and through them completed schooling and made her permanent vows in 1936. She taught school for years but was plagued by illness. Claims of her intervention began almost immediately upon her death, and often involved the children in the convent school where she had taught. The cause of Sister Alphonsa began on 2 December 1953 in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Palai and she was declared a Servant of God. She was declared Venerable on 9 July 1985 by Pope John Paul II. Her beatification was declared 8 February 1986 by Pope John Paul II at Kottayam. Hundreds of miraculous cures are claimed for her intervention, many of them involving straightening of clubbed feet, possibly because of her having lived with deformed feet herself. Two of these cases were submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints as proof of her miraculous intervention. The continuing cures are chronicled in the magazine PassionFlower. On Sunday, 12 October 2008, Pope Benedict XVI announced her canonization at a ceremony at St Peter's Square.
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