Saint Alphonsa/Footprints

Footprints for Saint Alphonsa are tour-depth life-trace places — walkable stops, shrines, and mission sites for pilgrimage maps. They are not a second copy of the five infobox significant locations, and not every church dedicated to this person. Full catalog: Footprints · trails: Tour Regional Trails · nearby: NearMe. This tour: 6 stop(s) stored in Cargo VisitAccess: Public = open to pilgrims · Limited = hours/appointment or exterior · Private / Unknown = do not treat as a tourist stop. Prefer a real source URL before marking Public. Editors: Add or edit stops with form · Form help · Template fields Please keep life-trace scope (Footprints / lab SCOPE). A later fact-pack re-publish may overwrite form edits unless the YAML pack is updated too.

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Footprints

Main article: Footprints

• Kudamaloor – birthplace association (Childhood) [Public] Outdoor – Kudamaloor, Kerala, India, Kudamaloor, Kerala, India
  • Year: 1910
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Changanassery
  • Birth association of Anna Muttathupadathu (19 Aug 1910), later Sr. Alphonsa. Public Kerala village landscape near Kottayam.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsa_of_the_Immaculate_Conception

• Clarist convent (Bharananganam) – religious life (Franciscan Clarist years) [Limited] Convent – FCC Clarist convent association, Bharananganam, Kerala, Bharananganam, Kerala, India
  • Year: 1936
  • Diocese: Eparchy of Palai
  • Convent landscape of her Franciscan Clarist life marked by illness offered in union with Christ. Limited interiors; shrine campus is the public focus.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsa_of_the_Immaculate_Conception

• Bharananganam – tomb shrine of Saint Alphonsa (Religious life, death & tomb) [Public] Shrine – St. Mary’s Forane / Alphonsa shrine, Bharananganam, Kerala, India, Bharananganam, Kerala, India
  • Year: 1946
  • Diocese: Eparchy of Palai
  • Primary public pilgrimage shrine and tomb of St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception in Kerala’s Kottayam district. Major South Indian Catholic campus.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsa_of_the_Immaculate_Conception

• St. Mary’s Forane Church (Bharananganam) – parish of the tomb campus (Parish & tomb campus) [Public] Church – Bharananganam, Kerala, India, Bharananganam, Kerala, India
  • Year: 1946
  • Diocese: Eparchy of Palai
  • Forane church anchoring the Alphonsa shrine campus at Bharananganam. Public Kerala pilgrimage pair with the tomb chapel.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsa_of_the_Immaculate_Conception

• Palai / Kottayam Syro-Malabar Catholic landscape (Syro-Malabar Church context) [Public] Outdoor – Palai–Kottayam corridor, Kerala, India, Palai, Kerala, India
  • Year: 1940
  • Diocese: Eparchy of Palai
  • Heartland of the Syro-Malabar Church that formed and venerates Alphonsa. Public Kerala Catholic corridor for a Bharananganam pilgrimage day.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro-Malabar_Church

• St. Peter's Square (Vatican) – 2008 canonization (Legacy) [Public] Outdoor – Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City, Vatican City, Vatican City
  • Year: 2008
  • Diocese: Diocese of Rome
  • Public square of Alphonsa’s canonization by Benedict XVI (12 Oct 2008). Kerala shrine remains the life hub.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsa_of_the_Immaculate_Conception