St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception - Saints

St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception - Saints



St. Alphonsa, Roman Catholic Nun, Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception was a Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister who is now honored as a saint, the first person of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church of the Saint Thomas Christian community.Patron against illness. Feastday July 28

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