St. Aloysius College, Elthuruth, is a first grade college affiliated to the University of Calicut. It is run by Fathers who belong to the congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) founded by Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara. The CMI community...

Kuriakose (Cyriac) Chavara was born in 1805, of pious and devout Catholic parents of Syro-MalabarChurch, at Kainakary, Kerala, India. After his early schooling in the native village and priestly studies under Fr. Thomas Palackal at Pallippuram, he was ordained priest in 1829. In 1831, co-operating with Fr. Thomas Palackal and Fr. Thomas Porukara, he...

St. Aloysius was born in Castiglione, Italy. The first words St. Aloysius spoke were the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. He was destined for the military by his father (who was in service to Philip II), but by the age of...