Political News Desk !!! Kuriakosi Ilyas Chavara (English: Kuriakose Elias Chavara; born 10 February 1805, Alappuzha, Kerala; Death- January 3, 1871, Cochin) Syrian Catholic saints and social reformers of Kerala were. On 23 November 2014, Pope Francis gave him the title of saint posthumously at St. Peter Square.
Kuriakosi Ilyas Chavara was born in an ordinary family in Alappuzha district of Kerala on 10 February 1805 AD. He did a lot of work for the education of not only Catholic Christians but also the deprived sections of other communities. Interestingly, he first established a Sanskrit school. The process of declaring Father Kuriakosi Ilyas Chavara as ‘saint’ began in the year 1984.
