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Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, the Glossary

Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, FCC (born Anna Muttathupadathu; 19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946), was a religious sister in the Franciscan Clarist Congregation.^[1]

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20th-century Indian nuns
Canonizations by Pope Benedict XVI
Christian clergy from Kottayam
Christianity in Kerala
Franciscan mystics
Indian Christian mystics
Indian Christian saints
Indian Eastern Catholic nuns
People from Changanassery
Syro-Malabar Catholics
Syro-Malabar saints
Third Order Regular Franciscans
Venerated Catholics from Kerala
Women from Kerala

Adolescence

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically corresponding to the age of majority).

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Alphonsus Liguori, CSsR (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787), sometimes called Alphonsus Maria de Liguori or Saint Alphonsus Liguori, was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.

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Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church

In the Catholic Church, the anointing of the sick, also known as Extreme Unction, is a Catholic sacrament that is administered to a Catholic "who, having reached the age of reason, begins to be in danger due to sickness or old age", except in the case of those who "persevere obstinately in manifest grave sin".

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Arpookara

Arpookara/Arpookkara (Malayalam: ആർപ്പൂക്കര) is a rural village in Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Baptism

Baptism (from immersion, dipping in water) is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water.

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Bharananganam

Bharananganam, is a Christian pilgrimage centre in South India on the banks of the Meenachil River, away from Pala and from Plassanal, in Kottayam district in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Bride of Christ

The bride of Christ, or the lamb's wife, is a metaphor used in number of related verses in the Christian Bible, specifically the New Testament – in the Gospels, the Book of Revelation, the Epistles, with related verses in the Old Testament.

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Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate.

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Canonization

Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church in India

The Catholic Church in India is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope.

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Chaff

Chaff is dry, scale-like plant material such as the protective seed casings of cereal grains, the scale-like parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw.

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Changanassery

Changanassery, (ചങ്ങനാശ്ശേരി) is a municipality in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India.

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Child

A child is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty.

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Dermatitis

Dermatitis is inflammation of the skin, typically characterized by itchiness, redness and a rash.

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Dicastery for the Causes of Saints

In the Catholic Church, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, previously named the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, is the dicastery of the Roman Curia that oversees the complex process that leads to the canonization of saints, passing through the steps of a declaration of "heroic virtues" and beatification.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome.

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Eastern Christianity

Eastern Christianity comprises Christian traditions and church families that originally developed during classical and late antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean region or locations further east, south or north.

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Ethnic groups in South Asia

Ethnic groups in South Asia are ethnolinguistic groupings within the diverse populations of South Asia, including the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

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Eugène Tisserant

Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant (24 March 1884 – 21 February 1972) was a French prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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Euphrasia Eluvathingal

Euphrasia Eluvathingal (born Rosa Eluvathingal; 17 October 1877 – 29 August 1952) was an Indian Carmelite nun of the Syro-Malabar Church, which is an Eastern Catholic Church in Kerala. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception and Euphrasia Eluvathingal are 20th-century Indian nuns, Christian female saints of the Late Modern era, Christianity in Kerala, Indian Eastern Catholic nuns, Malayali people, Syro-Malabar saints, venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II, venerated Catholics from Kerala and Women from Kerala.

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First Communion

First Communion is a ceremony in some Christian traditions during which a person of the church first receives the Eucharist.

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Foster care

Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community, treatment center, etc.), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the state.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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Grief

Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.

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Hot Christian Songs

Hot Christian Songs is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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India Abroad

India Abroad is a weekly newspaper published from New York City, which focuses on Indian news meant for an Indian American, Indian diaspora and expatriate audience.

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K. Karunakaran

Kannoth Karunakaran (5 July 191823 December 2010) was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Kerala in 1977, from 1981 to March 1982, from May 1982 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1995.

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Kerala

Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.

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Kottayam

Kottayam is a muncipal town in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India.

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Kottayam district

Kottayam is one of 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Kuriakose Elias Chavara

Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, CMI (10 February 1805 – 3 January 1871) was an Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest, religious, philosopher and social reformer. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception and Kuriakose Elias Chavara are beatifications by Pope John Paul II, Christianity in Kerala, Syro-Malabar saints, venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II and venerated Catholics from Kerala.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people.

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Nehru Stadium, Kottayam

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kottayam, Kerala.

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Nikhila Vimal

Nikhila Vimal (born 9 March 1994) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil films in addition to Telugu films.

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Novitiate

The novitiate, also called the noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a Christian novice (or prospective) monastic, apostolic, or member of a religious order undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether they are called to vowed religious life.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Pope BenedictXVI (Benedictus PP.; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.

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Postage stamp

A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail).

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Postulant

A postulant (from postulare, to ask) was originally one who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Religious congregation

A religious congregation is a type of religious institute in the Catholic Church.

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Religious sister

A religious sister (abbreviated: Sr.) in the Catholic Church is a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer and labor, or a canoness regular, who provides a service to the world, either teaching or nursing, within the confines of the monastery.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Saint Thomas Christians

The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani, Malankara Nasrani, or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians in the state of Kerala (Malabar region), who, for the most part, employ the Eastern and Western liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception and Saint Thomas Christians are Christianity in Kerala and Malayali people.

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Servant of God

Servant of God is a title used in the Catholic Church to indicate that an individual is on the first step toward possible canonization as a saint.

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St. Mary's Forane Church, Bharananganam

St.

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St. Peter's Square

Saint Peter's Square (Forum Sancti Petri, Piazza San Pietro) is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood (rione) of Borgo.

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Subtitles

Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media.

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Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Changanacherry

The Archeparchy of Changanacherry is a Syro-Malabar Catholic archeparchy with an area of 24,595 km2 comprising the districts of Kottayam, Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Kollam, and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, and also Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu.

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Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Palai

The Eparchy of Palai is a Syro-Malabar Catholic ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church with an area of 1166 km2 comprising the Meenachil taluk and a few villages of the neighbouring taluks in Kottayam, Ernakulam, and Idukki districts of central Kerala in South India.

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Syro-Malabar Church

The Syro-Malabar Church, also known as the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic Church based in Kerala, India. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception and Syro-Malabar Church are Christianity in Kerala.

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Thérèse of Lisieux

Therese of Lisieux (Thérèse de Lisieux; born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), religious name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus et de la Sainte Face), was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception and Thérèse of Lisieux are Christian female saints of the Late Modern era.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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Third Order of Saint Francis

The Third Order of Saint Francis is a third order in the Franciscan tradition of Christianity, founded by the medieval Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi.

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Travancore

The Kingdom of Travancore, also known as the Kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor or later as Travancore State, was an Indian kingdom that lasted from until 1949.

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Vatican City

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.

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Victim soul

The concept of a victim soul is an unofficial belief derived from interpretations of the Catholic Church teachings on redemptive suffering.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsa_of_the_Immaculate_Conception

Also known as Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, Alphonsa Muttathupandathu, Alphonsa dell’Immacolata Concezione, Alphonsa of Bharananganam, Alphonsa of India, Alphonsamma, Anna Muttathupadathu, Anna Muttathupandathu, Annakutty, Blessed Alphonsa, Saint Alfonsa, Saint Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Alphonsa, Sister Alphonsa, St Alphonsa, St. Alphonsa, St. Alphonsamma, .

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Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, the Glossary

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See also

20th-century Indian nuns

Canonizations by Pope Benedict XVI

Christian clergy from Kottayam

Christianity in Kerala

Franciscan mystics

Indian Christian mystics

Indian Christian saints

Indian Eastern Catholic nuns

People from Changanassery

Syro-Malabar Catholics

Syro-Malabar saints

Third Order Regular Franciscans

Venerated Catholics from Kerala

Women from Kerala

References