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There's this report that Pope Benedict XVI is going to make a Roman Catholic nun, Sister Alphonsa Attathupadathu who threw herself into a bonfire to escape a forced marriage, India's first female saint. The nun who died in 1946 at the age of 36 is said to have performed many miracles for people who seek relief from ill health. Indian Catholics feted the event and many visited Bharananganam in Kerala state to offer special prayers for her canonisation. That reminds me first of Joan of Arc who went to war, burned at the stake and later made a saint and of Masu and Wong Tai Sin, both being Chinese deities who are popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong respectively and who have been said to have performed their own miracles. Of course, there is Guan Yin, too, the goddess much revered by the Buddhists. Only thing is I do not know is who canonised these Chinese and Buddhist saints...that is if you call them saints...and not something else.
There's this report that Pope Benedict XVI is going to make a Roman Catholic nun, Sister Alphonsa Attathupadathu who threw herself into a bonfire to escape a forced marriage, India's first female saint. The nun who died in 1946 at the age of 36 is said to have performed many miracles for people who seek relief from ill health. Indian Catholics feted the event and many visited Bharananganam in Kerala state to offer special prayers for her canonisation. That reminds me first of Joan of Arc who went to war, burned at the stake and later made a saint and of Masu and Wong Tai Sin, both being Chinese deities who are popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong respectively and who have been said to have performed their own miracles. Of course, there is Guan Yin, too, the goddess much revered by the Buddhists. Only thing is I do not know is who canonised these Chinese and Buddhist saints...that is if you call them saints...and not something else.
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