A mass was held on Sunday at St Joseph's Cathedral Church to celebrate the canonisation of Mother Mariam Thresia, who hails from Kerala. Pope Francis has declared Mariam Thresia, who founded the Congregation of Sisters of the Holy Family, a saint today at a ceremony St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

Mass held in Kerala to celebrate canonisation of Mother Mariam Thresia

Teresa, also known as the 'saint of the gutters', worked with the poorest of the poor in Indian city of Kolkata for nearly four decades

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