Women just entering the Franciscan Clarists and others confirming their life commitment say India´s first woman saint inspired them to join Religious life. The story of Saint Alphonsa of the ...

Thousands of Indian Catholics cheered waving their national flag in St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception and called for an end to ...

More than 100,000 people from various religions attended a program celebrating the canonization of Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, India´s first woman saint. From left: Former president A ...

Chennai: Kerala nun Sister Alphonsa became the first Indian woman saint around 1.42 pm (IST) on Sunday, when Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed her and three others as saints at a special ceremony held at ...

And no, it’s not Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Pope Benedict XVI canonized Sister Alphonsa Bharanangnam at a Mass today in St. Peter’s Square. She was one of four new saints proclaimed today by the Pope ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters Life!) - A film about a Roman Catholic nun who was declared India's first woman saint, opens in cinemas in November, just weeks after the Pope canonized her in a ...

Leaders of the Syro-Malabar rite of the Catholic Church have expressed joy at the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa, a nun from the church. They say it is an important acknowledgement of a church that ...

A Preston Cathedral where the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ once served as curate needs urgent repairs. Wet rot has riddled St Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, now headquarters of the ...

The Berkshires may one day be able to claim a Catholic saint was born here. Mother Mary Alphonsa, founder of the Dominican Order of St. Rose of Lima, was declared a "Servant of God" in 2003 by the ...