Joseph Louis Ravel
French missionary priest in Tamil Nadu, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Coimbatore
Who they were
A Paris Foreign Missions priest, he founded the congregation in 1853 and started schools and orphanages around Coimbatore.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocesan inquiry into the cause of Servant of God Joseph Louis Ravel was opened in Coimbatore in January 2020 (nihil obstat 8 March 2019) at the petition of the Franciscan Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, and closed on 8 November 2023.
The cause
Joseph Louis Ravel is named a Servant of God; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: The cause of Joseph Louis Ravel.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.