https://mothereliswa.org/biography/ Mother Eliswa, an Indian Catholic from Kerala, became a nun after the death of her husband in 1851 and went on to found the Third Order of the Carmelite Discalced, now the Congregation of Teresian Carmelites.
Mother Eliswa was Beatified in November 2025. https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/nun-who-founded-pioneering-convent-beatified-in-kerala/