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The Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer (CMR), founded in 1920 in Kerala, India, by St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara of the Syro-Malabar Church, is a women's institute focused on education and healthcare. With 6,428 members running 500 schools and 18 hospitals, it embodies Eastern Catholic inculturation in Asia's largest Catholic population outside the West (20 million in India).