Kerala parish organizes “total eye donation” campaign

(June 29, 2011) A Catholic parish in southern India’s Kerala State created history when all its families agreed to donate their eyes. St. Francis Xavier’s Church of Kannankara, a parish under Kottayam archdiocese, organized a program on June 26 to help the parishioners pledge their eyes. The program was part of the archdiocese’s centenary celebrations. The Kannankara unit organized the “Vision 2011″ in collaboration with the Kerala Eye Donation Association of the Little Flower Hospital in Angamaly. Archbishop Mathew Moolakkatt of Kottayam led the Mass that preceded the “Total Eye Donation” campaign.
The archdiocese was erected in 1911 to cater to the section of Syro-Malabar Catholics known as Suddhist, or purists.