<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2c70458c-03e5-40df-94b3-d90ffd49ee7a/2C207A2A-4A16-496B-992B-253F0C06C5D2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mysterytopia.com/" href="http://mysterytopia.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">mysterytopia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mysterytopia.com/"><H3 class="post-title entry-title"> <A href="http://mysterytopia.com/2008/10/india-gets-its-first-female-saint.html">India gets its first female saint</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mysterytopia.com/"><DIV><A imageanchor="1" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-TskqTch9MQ/SPzhmKG6e7I/AAAAAAAACh8/tkf4nwNxs-A/s1600-h/St.Alphonsa.jpg"><IMG border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-TskqTch9MQ/SPzhmKG6e7I/AAAAAAAACh8/jp2GqH4141w/s320-R/St.Alphonsa.jpg" /></A>A young Catholic nun who disfigured herself to avoid marriage has become India's first female saint. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mysterytopia.com/"><DIV> Pope Benedict XVI canonised of Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception in the Vatican on Sunday. Thousands of Christian Indians travelled to Rome for the ceremony.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mysterytopia.com/"><DIV> Described by the Pope as "an exceptional woman", who lived in "extreme physical and spiritual suffering", Sister Alphonsa is only the second Indian to be elevated to sainthood.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mysterytopia.com/"><DIV> The Indian media reported that Sister Alphonsa dedicated her life to Jesus at age seven, and was so determined to become a nun that she stepped into a fire to disfigure her feet so that her aunt would stop pressuring her to marry.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mysterytopia.com/"><DIV> She was plagued by serious illness for much of her life, but was known for her stoicism and compassion. She died in 1946 aged 36.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2C207A2A-4A16-496B-992B-253F0C06C5D2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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