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Founder
of Sacred Heart (S.H.) Congregation for Women
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Born
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1872 April 25 .Edapady, Meenachil, Pala
Diocese, Kerala.
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Died
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23rd May 1935
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Servant
of GOD
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1989
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Venerated
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27th June 2011
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Founder of
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Founder of Sacred Heart (S.H.) Congregation
for Women
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Mortal Remains In
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Mortal remains interred at S.H. Convent Chapel, Palai
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Venerable Fr. Matthew
Kadalikkattil born on 25thApril, 1872
as the second son of Cherian and Rosa of a Syrian Catholic family
Kadalikkattil at Edappady belonging to the diocese of Pala.
He joined the seminary
conducted in the Syrian Carmelite monastery at Mannanam and was ordained
priest on February 17, 1901. To experience and share the compassionate love
of the Sacred Heart to the poor and the destitute he started a new religious
community on January I, 1911 in a small house with four members and
consecrated it to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Fr. Mathew was later twice in
charge of Lalam new and twice of the filial church at Kannadiurumpu within
Palai itself. Here he bestowed special attention to the conversion and uplift
of a very backward class called 'Harijens'.
Another area he worked
and spent himself for God and his people was education.. He bestowed his
fatherly care upon the primary school and middle school at Kannadiurumpu.
Later he established an English middle school at Lalam facing almost
insurmountable difficulties and hardships. This school later grew into the
great girls High School, which is doing wonderful service for the higher
education and overall progress of women in the area.
He had become an apostle
of devotion to the Sacred Heart to the extent that he used to sign himself
under the title 'The servant of Sacred Heart'. He yielded his soul to the
loving Heart of Jesus on May 23, 1935.
He dedicated his life to
the service of the less privileged and rejected ones of the society. So from
the very beginning of the congregation he started orphanages also. His cause
of canonization was taken up in 1987 and he was declared Servant of God in
1989 and declared as 'Venerable' on 27th June 2011.
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