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Mary Celine Payyappilly was a Syrian Catholic (Syro-Malabar) nun from the Indian state of Kerala. She was declared as Servant of God by Mar George Cardinal Alencherry , Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church on 9 April 2018.
She arrived in Guntur, India on 12 February. She joined the Congregation of Jesus Mary Joseph [6] and took the religious name Mary of the Sacred Heart. In 1922, after the completion of her novitiate, Glowrey began practising as a doctor. The basic dispensary where Glowrey began her medical mission work in Guntur grew into St Joseph’s Hospital ...
Eliswa Vakayil TOCD, religious name Eliswa of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the foundress of the first indigenous Carmelite congregation for women in India.She was the first religious sister from Kerala, [1] the southern most state of India; she established the first convent school, boarding house and orphanage for girls in Kerala.
They arrived in India on November 7, 1897. [1] The Sisters ran homes for the aged and the sick, orphanages and schools. Other women came to join them and eventually the canonesses in India separated from the monastery in Belgium and formed a new religious congregation, called the Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine. The work began to grow ...
The Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (Latin: Congregatio Fratrum Carmelitarum Beatae Virginis Mariae Immaculatae) abbreviated CMI, formerly also known as the Servants of Mary Immaculate (Malayalam: അമലോത്ഭവ ദാസ സംഘം), is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, [4] and is the largest such congregation ...
The Apostle of India, who came to Tamilakam, present day Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and was martyred on St.Thomas Mount. 3 July (solemnity in India) St. Bartholomew the Apostle: 1st century AD: Cana, Galilee: 1st century AD: Armenia: According to tradition, he did missionary activity in the region near Bombay on the Konkan coast. 24 August
The Congregation of the Daughters of Mary is a missionary organization within the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. Established in 1938 at Marthandam, in the Kanyakumari district, the congregation was founded by Joseph Kuzhinjalil under the guidance of Geevarghese Ivanios. Its mission focuses on evangelization and serving the poor and marginalized.
In India, a devadasi is a female artist who is dedicated to the worship and service of a deity or a temple for the rest of her life. [3] [4] The dedication takes place in a ceremony that is somewhat similar to a marriage ceremony.