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: The Indian Church will soon have a new saint: Blessed Maria Teresa Chiramel Mankidiyan, foundress of the congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family. Msgr. James Pazhayattil, bishop of Irinjalakuda [deceased in 2016], said: "She is like Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Apart from the fact that they share the name, they have in common not only having founded a religious congregation - one the Missionaries of Charity, the other the Sisters of the Holy Family - but above all they have distinguished themselves for the service for the disadvantaged : poor, sick, marginalized, dying ".
Born in Puthenchira (Kerala) on April 26, 1876, the blessed died at Kuzhikkattussery (also in Kerala) on June 8, 1926. Two days ago Pope Francis, receiving Card. Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for the...