Mother Eliswa Vakayil, the first nun in the history of the Catholic Church in Kerala and the founder of the Third Order of the Discalced Carmelites (TOCD), was formally declared “Blessed” on Saturday at a solemn ceremony held at the National Marian Pilgrimage Centre, the Basilica of Our Lady of Ransom, Vallarpadom here.
Cardinal Sebastian Francis, Bishop of Penang, Malaysia, and papal delegate representing Pope Leo XIV, officially pr
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