Her will prevailed when she joined the convent of Poor Clares of Fransican Order at Bharananganam in 1927. She spent the rest of her life there till her death in 1946.
When she was alive, people from her sleepy farming village and the hamlets around used to call on the unassuming nun, who would pray for them to mitigate their sufferings.
Some of the miracles attributed to her were said to have happened then.
The process of Alphonsa's canonisation, the step-by-step procedure of raising a person to the high pedestal of a Saint in the Catholic Church, began in 1953 with the church setting up a Diocesan tribunal.
Image: Devotees of Sister Alphonsa offer prayers over her tomb.
Photograph: Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images
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