2011-05-09 15:39:19

Another Indian nun closer to sainthood


(May 09, 2011) Another Indian nun from southern India’s Kerala state is nearing sainthood after a miracle accredited to her intercession is expected to be approved by the Vatican. Documents relating to the cure of a six-year-old boy from thyroglossal cyst through the “intercession” of Blessed Euphrasia were submitted last year by the Bishop of Irinjalakuda diocese to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which has now asked that the “positio” or official biography of the nun be readied. “The concrete miracle attributed to Euphrasia, who lived at Ollur, is expected to be approved by Vatican in two to three years, which is a shorter time considering the long years that took in the case of many other candidates for sainthood,” said Sister Cleopatra, the Vice-Postulator, or promoter, for the cause of Sr. Eupharasia. The Apostolic Nuncio to India, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio is slated to visit Ollur near Thrissur on May 21 as part of the process. The total disappearance of a sarcoma on the pelvic bone of a 55-year-old man in 1997 through the intercession of Sr. Euphrasia had led to her beatification on Dec. 3, 2009. Known as the “Praying Mother,” Blessed Euphrasia was born in 1877 at Edathuruthy in Thrissur district to Elavathungal Anthony and Kunjethy. She joined the congregation of the Mother of Carmel and became a nun in 1900. She spent much of her 52-year-old life in Saint Mary’s Convent at Ollur. If Blessed Euphrasia is canonized, she would be the second nun from Kerala to be elevated as a saint by the Catholic Church after Sister Alphonsa of Bharananganam, who was declared a saint two years back.







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