{"id":55038,"date":"2025-11-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=55038"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:56:39","slug":"mother-eliswa-vakayil-beatified-in-kerala-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/madre-eliswa-vakayil-beatificada-en-kerala-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Eliswa Vakayil, beatified in Kerala (India)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mother Eliswa Vakayil's courageous commitment to the emancipation of the poorest girls is a source of inspiration for all those who work for the dignity of women in the Church and society. This is how Pope Leo XIV referred to the Indian nun yesterday at the end of the Audience, in which he also mentioned the bishop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/foco\/san-josafat-busco-la-unidad-de-ortodoxos-y-catolicos\/\">St. Josaphat<\/a>, martyr for his untiring zeal for the unity of the Church\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA model, a mirror in which every daughter, every mother, every woman - lay, consecrated and religious - can identify and recognize herself.\u201d In this way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/es\/iglesia\/news\/2025-11\/fue-beatificada-madre-eliswa-vakayil-pionera-vida-religiosa-ind.html\">described<\/a> Malaysian Cardinal Sebastian Francis, Bishop of Penang, to Mother Eliswa Vakayil, founder of the first indigenous Third Order of Discalced Carmelites (TOCD) for women in India.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, prior to the call to consecrated life, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Mother-Eliswa,-a-new-blessed-for-India-62891.html\">Mother Eliswa<\/a> she was a wife, mother of a daughter and widow. Nourished by frequent adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, between 1831 and 1913, Mother Vakayil opened the doors of consecrated life to Catholic women of the Latin and Syro-Malabar rite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Saints Leandro de Sevilla and Diego de Alcal\u00e1<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saint Leander of Seville (Cartagena, 540 - Seville, 599), was the brother of Saints Fulgentius, Florentina and Isidore. In 578 he was named archbishop of Seville. He suffered persecution and exile for his efforts to convert the Arian Visigothic people to the Catholic faith. He presided over the Council III of Toledo (year 589), which achieved the conversion of the Visigothic king Recaredo and the Catholic unity of the nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. Diego de Alcal\u00e1 was born in San Nicol\u00e1s del Puerto (Seville) around 1400, of a humble family. At a very young age he chose the hermit life in the mountains of Cordoba. At the age of 30 he entered the Franciscan Order as a lay brother. He was illiterate and dedicated himself to the humblest of trades, according to the Franciscan saints. He evangelized the Canary Islands, and after a transfer to Rome, he died in Alcal\u00e1 in 1463.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El valiente compromiso de la Madre Eliswa Vakayil con la emancipaci\u00f3n de las ni\u00f1as m\u00e1s pobres es fuente de inspiraci\u00f3n para todas las personas que trabajan por la dignidad de la mujer en la Iglesia y la sociedad. As\u00ed se refiri\u00f3 ayer el Papa Le\u00f3n XIV a la religiosa india al final de la Audiencia,&nbsp;en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":55039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[1317],"class_list":["post-55038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-india","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}