It is our deep joy to inform you that on Saturday, 8 November, the Archdiocese of Verapoly (India) will hold the ceremony of Beatification of the Venerable Servant of God Eliswa of the Blessed Virgin Mary (born Eliswa Vakayil), founder of the Congregation of the Third Order of Discalced Carmelites, now the Carmelite Teresian Sisters, who was born on 15 October 1831 in Ochanthuruth and died on 18 July 1913 in Varapuzha.

The ceremony will be presided over by His Eminence, Cardinal Sebastian Francis, Bishop of Penang.