St. Mariam Thresia - A Life Sketch

mercy, while that zealous and devout mother found time to teach her children, specially the curious Thresia, the lessons of religiosity. Thanda knew about the saints, martyrs and above all about Jesus Christ who sacrificed his life on the cross for the redemption of the mankind. Without much time, the seeds of faith and love took root in the heart of Thresia.

Little Thresia began to teach the smaller children of her locality, the lessons she learnt from her mother. As a young girl, with a bowl filled with her own food she moved to the needy. As a nun she was always serving the sick, preparing the dying, healing the wounded, preaching the Gospel, educating the ignorant, accepting the unwanted, understanding the weak and liberating the oppressed. This unlettered but pure and refined girl from a village, blessed by God with a rare ingenious wisdom and mystic powers and with noble and charitable heart, founded the Congregation of Holy Family on 14 May 1914 which is now established far and wide with around 2500 members involved in different ministries over 250 convents situated in India and abroad. Mother Mariam Thresia is not just a Foundress of the Congregation of the Holy Family but a prophetess of families. She was canonised a saint by Pope Francis on 13 October, 2019.