Vatican City: An Indian nun from the state of Kerala who spent nearly all her life caring for the poor and healing the sick will be given sainthood at a special ceremony today, 13 October, in Vatican City.
Sister Mariam Thresia, the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family (CHF), will be conferred sainthood by the Catholic Church in Rome’s St Peter’s Square, as part of a ceremony that will see the raising of five new saints. Besides sister Mariam Thresia, the others are British Cardinal John Newman, Swiss sister Marguerite Bays, Brazilian sister Dulce Lopes and Italian sister Giuseppina Vannini.
“Sister Mariam Theresia was born in Puthenchira, in southern India’s Kerala state, on 26 April, 1876,” said Father Robin Gomes of the Vatican News, the official news agency of the Holy See.
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Sister Thresia died on 8 June, 1926, at the age of 50, and was declared blessed by Pope Saint John Paul II on 9 April, 2000. Pope Francis on 12 February authorised a decree recognising a miracle through her intercession, which cleared her for sainthood, and on 1 July, the Pope decided on 13 October as ‘Canonisation’ day.
