Celebrations have started at the Shrine of Blessed Mariam Thresia, founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family, at Kuzhikkattussery in Thrissur district after Pope Francis formally approved her canonisation at an ordinary public consistory of cardinals on causes of canonisation at the Vatican on July 1The Pope will declare Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan a saint on October 13. The canonisation will take place at St. Peter’s Square on October 13 this year. “It’s a happy moment not only for the Sisters of the Holy Family but for all believers. A team from Kerala will participate in the special prayer session on the previous day of canonisation at the Vatican,” said Sister Rosmin Mathew of the Kuzhikkattussery Mariam Thresia convent. The founder and the first member of the Congregation of the Holy Family, Mariam Thresia, “with indomitable energy and utter trust in divine providence”, built, in less than 12 years, three new convents, two schools, two hostels, a study house, and an orphanage, a Vatican document said.

Source: The Hindu July 02, 2019 18:11 UTC