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Sr.Alphonsa is a Clarist nun who hails from Kerala and belongs to Syro-Malabar rite. She was born on 19th August 1910. She entered the Poor Clares Convent in 1927, receiving the postulant’s veil with the name Alphonsa in 1928 and she received the religious habit in 1930. In spite of her painful illness she suffered she was cheerful to the last and the smile of innocence never parted from her lips. She considered herself a sacrificial offering at God’s altar and believed that suffering refines us and makes us worthy of him. She passed away on 28th July, 1946. In 1985 Pope John Paul II formally approved a miracle attributed to her and on 9th July she became ‘Venerable Sister Alphonsa’. On 8th Feb. 1986 during his apostolic visit to India, the pope beatified her. The canonization of Blessed Alphonsa will be on October 12, 2008.
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