Thiruvananthapuram: Six years after the Canonisation of Sister Alphonsa as India's first woman saint by Vatican, two other beatified candidates from Kerala, Fr Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia have moved closer to the sainthood with Pope Francis approving miracles attributed to them.

Both Chavara and Euphrasias belonged to Kerala-based Syro Malabar Church, from which Sister Alphonsa also hailed.