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Situated
at
Thrissur
district.A
Holy
place
that
we
must
visit.
Saint
Euphrasia
Eluvathingal,
(born
Rosa
Eluvathingal;
17
October
1877
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29
August
1952),
was
an
Indian
Carmelite
nun
of
the
Syro-Malabar
Church,
which
is
an
Eastern
Catholic
Church
and
a
part
of
the
Saint
Thomas
Christian
community
in
Kerala.
She
was
canonised
as
a
saint
by
Pope
Francis
on
23
November
2014
in
Vatican
City.
Since
the
beheading
of
St.John
the
Baptist
is
celebrated
on
August
29,
the
feast
of
St.
Euphrasia
is
postponed
to
August
30.
She
was
born
Rosa
Eluvathingal
on
17
October
1877
in
a
Syro-Malabar
Catholic
Nasrani
family
in
Kattoor,
Irinjalakuda,Thrissur
district,
in
Kerala.
Rosa
was
the
eldest
child
of
wealthy
landowner
Cherpukaran
Antony
and
his
wife
Kunjethy.
She
was
baptised
on
25
October
1877
in
Our
Lady
of
Carmel,
Forane
Church,
Edathiruthy
for
pray
the
Rosary
and
to
participate
in
the
Qurbana.
At
the
age
of
nine,
Rosa
is
said
to
have
experienced
an
apparition
of
the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary,
which
led
her
to
make
a
commitment
never
to
marry,
and
to
commit
her
entire
life
to
God.
When
she
was
ten,
she
entered
the
boarding
school
attached
to
the
first
indigenous
Carmelite
community
in
the
Syro-Malabar
Church,
founded
by
Saints
Kuriakose
Elias
Chavara
and
Leopold
Beccaro
in
1866
at
Koonammavu
in
Ernakulam
District.
As
she
grew
older,
Rosa
wanted
to
enter
the
Sisters
of
the
Mother
of
Carmel,
who
follow
the
Rule
of
the
Third
Order
of
the
Discalced
Carmelites.
Her
father
opposed
this,
as
he
wanted
to
arrange
a
marriage
for
her
with
the
son
of
another
prosperous
family
in
the
region.
Seeing
her
resolve,
her
father
eventually
relented
and
accompanied
her
to
the
convent.
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