Maryland’s first Carmelite monastery continues its hidden life of prayer as the sisters prepare for the arrival of St.

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday spoke of the beatification of Mother Elisva Vakha’i, the 19th-century founder of the Third Order of ...

The pioneering nun who established the first indigenous convent in the Indian state of Kerala was declared “Blessed” on ...

Mother Eliswa Vakayil, a widow, mother, and founder of India's first indigenous Carmelite order, has been declared Blessed in ...

KOCHI: In a realisation of the prayers of the sisters of the Congregation of the Teresian Carmelites and the hopes of the residents of Ochanthuruth, thousands o ...

Mother Eliswa to be declared 'Blessed' on November 8, marking a historic moment for the Catholic Church in Kerala.

The beatification puts Mother Eliswa, a shining symbol of caregiving and women’s empowerment in Kerala, just one step away from sainthood status ...

Mother Eliswa Vakayil, Kerala's first nun, was declared Blessed 112 years posthumously in a grand ceremony attended by ...

Nuns are earning a reputation for being defiant, but obedience has always had its limits RNS (Jacqueline Murray is University Professor Emerita in history at the University of Guelph in Ontario. The ...

Kochi: Mother Eliswa, the first nun of the Kerala Church and the foundress of the Third Order of the Discalced Carmelites ...

Kochi: In a historic moment for the Kerala Catholic Church, Mother Eliswa Vakayil, the first nun in the state, was officially ...

OPENING of the silver tomb of St. Teresa of Ávila; portrait of St. Teresa of Ávila. The Diocese of Ávila in Spain reported on August 28, 2024, that the body of St. Teresa of Ávila, a doctor of the ...