St Alphonsa Shrine
About St. Alphonsa Shrine at Bharananganam
No sooner had Sr. Alphonsa been dead in an odour of sanctity on 28 July 1946 and her mortal remains interred than her renown as a saint spread far and wide. People irrespective of persuasion and denomination visited her tomb with prayers of intercession. Every supplicant was overwhelmed by the luminous aura and the numinous aroma that suffused the air there, and every prayer was answered.
The main structure of the Church which began to be known as St. Alphonsa shrine Church following Alphonsa’s canonization on 12 October 2008 had been built as a cemetery chapel of Bharananganam Forane Church in 1945. Sr. Alphonsa was the first nun to be buried in the chapel. Her tomb now stands at the very place where her mortal remains were buried on 29 July 1946.
No sooner had Sr. Alphonsa been dead in an odour of sanctity on 28 July 1946 and her mortal remains interred than her renown as a saint spread far and wide. People irrespective of persuasion and denomination visited her tomb with prayers of intercession. Every supplicant was overwhelmed by the luminous aura and the numinous aroma that suffused the air there, and every prayer was answered.
The main structure of the Church which began to be known as St. Alphonsa shrine Church following Alphonsa’s canonization on 12 October 2008 had been built as a cemetery chapel of Bharananganam Forane Church in 1945. Sr. Alphonsa was the first nun to be buried in the chapel. Her tomb now stands at the very place where her mortal remains were buried on 29 July 1946.