Mar Thomas Kurialacherry

Venerable Thomas Kurialacherry (January 14, 1873 - February 6, 1925) was a Catholic bishop, within the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. He was the first Bishop of what would become the Archdiocese of Changanassery, and he founded the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. In 1935, ten years after his death, his Cause of Canonisation was initiated giving him the title "Servant of God." On Saturday, April 2, 2011, the Holy Father, His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, in an audience with His Eminence, Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, approved (along with the advancement of many other sainthood causes) a statement saying that Bishop Kurialacherry had lived a life of heroic virtue. This gives him the additional title of "Venerable". To be beatified, a miracle (usually involving a medically unexplainable cure attributed to prayers asking his intercession, that took place after his death and after the opening of his cause, and which must be verified by a panel of doctors and another panel of theologians, before it is finally approved by the Congregation and the Pope) would have to happen. After beatification, another such miracle would have to happen and be similarly approved if he is to be canonized as a saint.

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Name	Kurialacherry, Mar Thomas
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Date of birth	January 14, 1873
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Date of death	February 6, 1925
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