Beatification process to declare Fr. Roche as Saint begins at Brahmavar church
The Hindu
The beatification process to declare Fr. Alfred Roche as a Saint commenced at the Holy Family Church, Brahmavar, on Monday with Udupi Diocese Bishop Most Rev. Gerald Isaac Lobo leading a solemn mass.S
The beatification process to declare Fr. Alfred Roche as a Saint commenced at the Holy Family Church, Brahmavar, on Monday with Udupi Diocese Bishop Most Rev. Gerald Isaac Lobo leading a solemn mass.
Soon after the Holy Mass, a committee appointed to formalise the process to elevate Fr. Roche took oath.
Speaking on the occasion, Rev. Lobo said that the Udupi Diocese is blessed as the son of the soil, Fr. Roche, through his devout and exemplary life became a model for all and earned all the qualities to be considered to be elevated as a Saint. The elevation process is a long drawn out process, he said and hoped that it would be completed at the earliest so that the region would have its own Saint.