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10. The name of the community was the Servants of Mary Immaculate of Mount
Carmel. The foundation for the first monastery at Mannanam was laid on May 11,
1831, and the trio took vows to form a religious community.
11. Chavara took the additional name of Elias, from the Carmelite tradition of
his having been their founder. Palackal and Porukara died in 1841 and 1846,
respectively.
12. Chavara became Vicar General for the Syro- Malabar Catholic Church in 1861.
13. He defended the ecclesial unity of the Church, which was threatened by
schism due to the consecration by Thomas Rochos of Nestorian bishops.
14. He worked to renew the faith in the church. He was a man of prayer with a
devotion to the Eucharist and the Virgin Mary.
15. He was also a social reformer,an educationist and had played a major and
significant role in educating women and people of lower sections of society.
16. He first introduced the system called A school along with every church
which was successful in making education and knowledge available for everyone
for free. Thus schools in Kerala are also called pallikudam(palli means
church).
17. Chavara, in collaboration with Father Leopold Beccaro, O.C.D., founded the
first native religious congregation for women in India, the Sisters of the Mother of
Carmel (C.M.C.), in 1866.
18. Chavara died on 3rd January , 1871, aged 65, at Koonammavu, of natural
causes.
19. Kuriakose Elias Chavara was canonised by Pope Francis in 2014 November.