Covid-19 victim becomes first nun cremated in India

Ashes of the first Indian Catholic nun to be cremated were interned in her congregation’s cemetery in Kerala State on July 7, five days after she died of Covid-19 in New Delhi.

Sister Ajaya Mary, the Delhi provincial of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died on July 2 in the church-run Holy Family Hospital in Delhi. She was 67.

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