Euphrasia Eluvathingal

Marth Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Evuprasiamma) എവുപ്രാസ്യാമ്മ
Born	17 October 1877 Kattoor, Kingdom of Cochin (now in Kerala, India)
Died	29 August 1952 Ollur, Thrissur, Kerala, India
Venerated in	Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
Beatified	3 December 2006, Ollur, Thrissur by Mar Varkey Vithayathil
Canonized	23 November 2014, Rome by Pope Francis
Major shrine	St. Mary's Catholic Church, Ollur
Feast	29 August (Syro-Malabar)
Attributes	Catholic saint

Marth Euphrasia Eluvathingal also called Saint Euphrasia Eluvathingal baptised as Rosa Eluvathingal (17 October 1877 – 29 August 1952) was an Indian Carmelite nun of the Syro-Malabar Church which is an Eastern Catholic Church and a part of the Saint Thomas Christian community in Kerala. She was canonised as a Saint by Pope Francis on 23 November 2014 in Vatican City.

She was born Rosa Eluvathingal on 17 October 1877 in a Syro-Malabar Catholic Nasrani family in Kattoor, Thrissur in Kerala. Rosa was the eldest child of wealthy landowner Cherpukaran Antony and his wife Kunjethy. She was baptised on 25 October 1877 in Mother of Carmel Church in Edathuruthy. Her mother was a devout Syrian Catholic, who taught her how to pray the rosary and to participate in the Qurbana. At the age of nine, Rosa is said to have experienced an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which led her to make a commitment never to marry, and to commit her entire life to God. When she was ten, she entered the boarding school attached to the first indigenous Carmelite community in the Syro-Malabar Church, founded by Saints Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Leopold Beccaro in 1866 at Koonammavu in Ernakulam District.

As she grew older, Rosa wanted to enter the Sisters of the Mother of Carmel, who follow the Rule of the Third Order of the Discalced Carmelites. Her father opposed this, as he wanted to arrange a marriage for her with the son of another prosperous family in the region. Seeing her resolve, her father eventually relented and accompanied her to the convent.

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