Sacred Heart Mission Hospital is started by Late Msgr. Paul Chittilappilly, the Founder of the Congregation of Samaritan Sisters in the year 1967. The congregation is founded during 1961 in order to render health care services to the poor, sick and the afflicted with the special emphasis to the leprosy patients.

The Congregation of Samaritan sisters was Founded by Msgr. Paul Chittilapilly, the then Vicar General of Trichur diocese, a person who dedicated his entire life for the service of the downtrodden, especially those affected by leprosy.Avittathur in Irijalakuda was blessed by the birth of Msgr.Paul. His parents were Chittilapily Thommana Lonappan and Mechery Thresia. He was born on 1st July 1909, as their second child and was called Kunjipalu. After his Bachelor’s degree in 1933, he joined the seminary and became a priest on 17th December 1939, a priest ordained to give life and light to many, for generations to come, through the Congregation he has founded. “Maximum for Jesus and minimum for Paul” was his motto.