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More on one of those approved for beatification the other day: Born on 1 April 1891 in Ramapuram in the diocese of Palai, Kerala, Fr Augustinus Thevarparampil entered the seminary of Palai and was ordained priest on 17 December 1921, aged 30, by Bishop Mar Tommasi Kurialacherry. In February 1923, he was sent as vice…