Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu

Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, F.C.C., was a Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister who is now honored as a saint. She is the first person of India to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Claims of her miraculous intervention began almost immediately upon her death, many involving children of the convent school where she taught, of the straightening of clubbed feet; she too lived with deformed feet.