Joseph C. Panjikaran
Mgr. Joseph C. Panjikaran (1888-1949) of Shertallay was a Syro-Malabar Catholic Monsignor, historian, theologian, journalist, and the founder of the Dharmagiri Hospital, Kothamangalam, and the Congregation of the Medical Sisters of St. Joseph (Dharmagiri sisters).[1][2]
The cause of his canonisation was initiated by the Diocese of Kothamangalam in 2010.[3]
Life
Joseph C. Panjikaran was born on 10 September 1888 in the village of Uzhuva, in the diocese of Ernakulam as the son of Chacko Panjikaran and Mariam Kanichattu.
Panjikaran became director of the propagation of faith in the Vicariate of Ernakulam. He believed that the church had responsibility to provide medical services to the poor and the sick. He opened a hospital named Dharmagiri at Kothamangalam, Kerala in 1934 and founded the congregation of Medical Sisters of St. Joseph in 1944.[4]
He died of a heart attack on 4 November 1949.[4]
References
- ^ Medical Sisters of St. Joseph
- ^ Mgr. Joseph C. Panjikaran
- ^ Beatification of Mgr. Joseph C. Panjikaran initiated
- ^ a b "Life Sketch of Our Founder". Lucknow, India: Fatima Hospital. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
- 1888 births
- 1949 deaths
- People from Ernakulam district
- Syro-Malabar priests
- Indian Eastern Catholics
- University of Madras alumni
- 20th-century Indian historians
- 20th-century Indian archaeologists
- Historians of India
- Historians of the Catholic Church
- Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly
- Indian Roman Catholic priests
- Indian newspaper editors
- Indian Christian theologians
- Roman Catholic theologians
- Canon law jurists
- Canonical theologians
- Papal chamberlains
- Founders of Catholic religious communities
- 20th-century venerated Christians
- Eastern Catholic Servants of God
- Malayalam-language journalists
- 20th-century Roman Catholic priests