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St Kuriakose Elias Chavara of Holy Family

Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, CMI (10 February 1805 – 3 January 1871) was an Indian Catholic priest, religious, philosopher and social reformer. He is the first canonised Catholic male saint of Indian origin and was a member of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic church.

He was the co-founder and first Prior General of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), the first religious congregation for men in the Syro-Malabar Church. However, the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (CMC), originally known as the Third Order of Discalced Carmelites (TOCD), was founded by Venerable Mother Eliswa Vakayil in 1866 in Kerala. In a decree issued on April 25, 2025, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints officially recognized Mother Eliswa as the foundress of the TOCD, from which both the CMC (Syro-Malabar) and the Congregation of Teresian Carmelites (CTC, Latin) later emerged. (Full article...)
Attributes: Catholic saint, founder and social reformer
Patronage: Press industry, media, literature, congregations
See also: Simeon of Jerusalem; Geltrude Comensoli

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