| On the Way to Sainthood |
| Canonization is
an official act of the Catholic Church declaring
one of its deceased members as a model for christian
living and worthy of public cult, and entering the
name in the canon-authorised list of recognised
saints. There are more than a dozen persons whose
canonization process is at various stages. Given
below are short sketches on those saintly lives.
Fr. Lucas Vithuvattickal CM! (Rome) has contributed
in no small measure for this part. |
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Mar Mathew Kavukatt
( July 14, 1905-0ct.5, 1969 ) |
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Mar Mathew Kavukatt,
the former Archbishop of Chang ana cherry
Arch . diocese was an eminent educationist
and administrator.
He was born at Pravithanam, now in the Pala
Diocese, Kerala. He was ordained priest
on Dec. I, 1935. Fr. Kavukatt was appointed
as Bishop of Changanacherry in 1950. He
was elevated to Archbishop in 1956.
Mar Kavukatt was the founder of Assumption
College Changanacherry, B.K. College Amalagiri,
5t. Aloysius College Edathua and many other
educational institutions in the Archdiocese.
His cause of canonization was taken up by
the Archdiocese and he was declared Servant
of God on Oct. 25,1996.
Address:
Fr. Gregory Paruvaparambil, Vice Postulator
for the Cause of Archbishop Kavukatt, Archbishop's
House, Changanacherry, Kottayam Dt., Kerala.
Ph: 0481-421162. Fax: 422540
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Mother Veronica of the Passion
( Sophie Leeves ) ( Oct. I, 1823 - Nov. 16,
1906 ) |
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Mother Veronica
is the foundress of Apostolic Carmel, a
religious congregation for
women.
She was born of English parents in Constanti
nople. She became Catholic at the age of
27 in Malta, Cyprus. She went to France
and joined the Congregation of St. Jo- seph
of the Apparition in 1851.
On receiving an inspiration to start an
Apostolic Carmel she came to India in 1862
and spent two years at Mangalore and Kozhikode.
Later she left for France and joined the
Cloistered Carmel of Pau in 1867.
She prepared a group of sisters of the Carmelite
Third Order Regular as 'Carmel for Missions'
congregation at Bayonne, France, on July
16, 1868.
Through them she founded the Apostolic Carmel
in Mangalore, Karnataka, in 1868. Later
she rejoined Carmel of Pau. Mother Veronica
died and was buried in Pau in 1906.
Cause of canonization was taken up by the
sisters of the Apostolic Carmel in 1997.
Address:
Rev. Sr. M. Liceria AC, Vice Postulator,
Apostolic Carmel Generalate, P.B.41O7,JaiNagar,
T-Block P.O., Bangalore, Karnataka, India-
560041. Ph:080-663371O,6341393
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Aug. 10, 1910 - Sept. 5, 1997) |
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'Angel
of the Gutters' and 'Mother of the Poor,'
Mother Teresa was a living testimony of
Christian charity whose services were ac-
claimed worldwide. Mother Teresa was born
at Skopje in Albania on August 10, 1910
as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She joined Loretto
convent in Ireland in 1928 and reached India
in the same year.
She took perpetual vows on May 27, 1937.
For a few years she was a teacher at Calcutta.
In 1946 she got a special inspiration to
work for the poorest of the poor and got
permission to leave the congregation.
In 1950 she founded the Mis- sionaries of
Charity congregation for women devoted to
the care of the sick, destitutes and the
neglected. In 1963 the brothers' section
of the congregation was started. In 1965
the con- gregation was raised to the status
of pontifical rank.
Mother Teresa's work was widely acclaimed
and recognised world over. She was the
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1979),
the Templeton Prize (1973) and numerous
other international awards. The Government
of India recognised her services by according
her the highest civilian honour of Bharat
Ratna in 1980. Mother Teresa died on Sept.
5, 1997 at Calcutta.
Cause of her canonization was taken up by
the Archdiocese of Calcutta in 1999 and
she was declared Servant of God on June
12,1999.
Address:
Vice Postulator, Fr. Brian MC, Headquarters
of the Missionar- ies of Charity, Mother
House, 54/A Lower Circular Road, Calcutta-16,
West Bengal.
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