A tale of two nuns
17 Oct 2012 7:42 AM IST
While one attained the pinnacle of glory, the other lived a life of suffering in obscurity and yet both became a symbol of love and sacrifice for millions of people in India and around the world.
A book 'The Mother and The Sister', authored by Cyriac Thomas, which captures the lives of two most celebrated nuns in India - Mother Teresa and Saint Alphonsa - was on Tuesday launched here.
The book was released by Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, at a function attended by chief justice of India Altamas Kabir, union minister K V Thomas, principal advisor to prime minister T K A Nair among other dignitaries.
Thomas, a member of National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, said he was inspired to write the book as he knelt at St Peter Square in Vatican city during the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa in 2008.
‘Both were born in the same year and in the same month of August within a gap of few days,’ Thomas said at the book release.
A book 'The Mother and The Sister', authored by Cyriac Thomas, which captures the lives of two most celebrated nuns in India - Mother Teresa and Saint Alphonsa - was on Tuesday launched here.
The book was released by Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, at a function attended by chief justice of India Altamas Kabir, union minister K V Thomas, principal advisor to prime minister T K A Nair among other dignitaries.
Thomas, a member of National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, said he was inspired to write the book as he knelt at St Peter Square in Vatican city during the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa in 2008.
‘Both were born in the same year and in the same month of August within a gap of few days,’ Thomas said at the book release.
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