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The 'blessed' saint from Kerala
October 13, 2008
According to Indian church history, the first Indian person to become a Catholic saint was Gonzalo Garcia, a Jesuit born in Vasai near Mumbai.
He died a martyr at Nagasaki in Japan in 1597 and was raised to the status of a saint in 1862.
At the canonisation ceremony for Sister Alphonsa in the Vatican, representatives of the Syro-Malabar, Latin and Malankara churches of Kerala were also present.
Image: A devotee offers prayers in front of a statue of Sister Alphonsa during a special holy mass in Bharananganam.
Photograph: Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images
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