Euphrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Euphrasia of the Sacred Heart CMC (real name: Pink Eluvathingal ) ( born October 7, 1877 Edathuruthy village, community Kattoor ( diocese of Irinjalakuda ), India, † August 29 1952 in Ollur, Kerala ( Archdiocese of Trichur ), India) was an Indian nun and mystic, and was beatified in 2006 by the Catholic Church.

Life

Pink Eluvathingal decided to become a nun after a vision. In 1897, she joined the Sisters of Carmel mother in Koonammavu, which had been founded in 1866 by Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara OCD together with Leopold Beccaro OCD, and took the religious name Euphrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On 10 January 1898 she was clothed with the habit of the Carmelites. In 1900 she became a member of the newly established convent in Ollur where she was from 1903 to 1913 novice mistress and mother superior from 1913 to 1916. From the year 1916 she had no significant offices more, took only simple work and organized otherwise a life of perpetual prayer, mystical contemplation, the Rosary and Eucharistic Adoration. They were called mother tabernacle.

Euphrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was beatified in Ollur on 3 December 2006. Your Memorial Day in the liturgy is the 29th August.