{"id":2821,"date":"2026-05-07T16:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postocd.org\/cause\/elizabeth-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-en\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:39:27","slug":"elizabeth-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-en","status":"publish","type":"causa","link":"https:\/\/postocd.org\/en\/causes\/blessed\/elizabeth-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth of the Blessed Virgin Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ELISWA (ELIZABETH VAKAYIL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eliswa was born in October 1832. She was the eldest of eight in a rich religious family from Vypussery (name of family residence) in Ochanthuruth.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 16, Eliswa (the Malayalam version of Elizabeth), married Vareed Vakayil, an elderly business man from Koonammavu, near Varapuzha.&nbsp; The Vakayil family was traditionally involved in chukku and other business matters but had also administration control over huge territorial lands in Koonammava.<\/p>\n<p>On the death of her husband, according to custom at the time, the rich widow Eliswa should have remarried.&nbsp; She refused all such proposals and spent her time in prayer and care of the poor.&nbsp; She lived in a simple hut with a straw roof, built near the Vakayil home in Koonammavu.<\/p>\n<p>In 1862, Eliswa shared &nbsp;her desire to serve God with her Parish priest, a young Italian called Fr. Leopoldo.&nbsp; In 1866, the first nuns in Kerala founded the Congregation of Carmelite Teresians (CTC) under the TOCD.&nbsp; The first convent was a simple bamboo dwelling in Koonammavi, on land once administered by Vareed Vakayil.&nbsp; The new Congregation, under Mother Eliswa, had the mission of teaching girls who were without any means of having a proper education. St. Joseph\u2019s LP school in Koonammavu was the first Catholic school for girls in Malabar and Mother Eliswa\u2019s new mission in life became that of teaching young girls.<\/p>\n<p>Following on the separation of the Latin and Syrian Rites in the Church, the school transferred to Varapuzha and St. Joseph\u2019s School&nbsp; for the girls of Varapuzha was &nbsp;established.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Eliswa died on 18 July 1913.<\/p>\n<p>The Diocesan tribunal of investigation on the \u201clife, virtues and apparent sanctity\u201d of Eliswa closed on 5 November 2014 and the Decree of Validity was issued on 7 April 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELISWA (ELIZABETH VAKAYIL) Eliswa was born in October 1832. She was the eldest of eight in a rich religious family from Vypussery (name of family residence) in Ochanthuruth. 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