Q. In which year Kuriakose Elias Chavara Achan Canonized?
Solution:
- On 7 April 1984, Pope John Paul II approved Kuriakose Elias Chavara’s practice of heroic virtues and declared him Venerable.
- Kuriakose Elias Chavara was beatified at Kottayam on 8 February 1986 by Pope John Paul II in the course of a papal visit to India.
- The miracle which was approved for canonization of Kuriakose Chavara to sainthood was the instantaneous, total and stable cure of the congenital squint (alternating esotropia) in both eyes of Maria Jose Kottarathil, a Catholic girl of age 9 from Pala in Kottayam District of Kerala State in India.
- Even though Maria was suggested to have surgery by five doctors, Maria and her family decided to pray to Kuriakose Chavara. On 12 October 2007, Maria visited the room and tomb of Kuriakose Chavara at Mannanam with her parents. On 16 October 2007, the squint eyes disappeared.
- The miracle was approved by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints on 18 March 2014 which lead to the canonization.
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