Catholic News Service<\/font><\/a><\/p>\nVATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI cleared the way for the canonization of Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin, the 19th-century foundress of a religious order and numerous schools in Indiana.<\/p>\n
During an April 28 private meeting with head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Saints’ Causes, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, the pope signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of the French-born nun.<\/p>\n
At the same meeting, the pope recognized a miracle clearing the way for the beatification of Father Basil Anthony Moreau, founder of the congregations of the Holy Cross.<\/p>\n
Born in France’s northern province of Brittany October 2, 1798, Mother Theodore traveled to the United States as a missionary in 1840 at the request of the French-born bishop of Vincennes, Ind.<\/p>\n
Mother Theodore, who had been superior of the Sisters of Providence at Ruille-sur-Loire in France, founded the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods. She and her companions also started Indiana’s first boarding school for young girls.<\/p>\n
Before Mother Theodore died May 14, 1856, she set up 10 other Catholic schools throughout Indiana.<\/p>\n
Vatican officials at the sainthood congregation affirmed in February that the curing of an eye ailment of a Sisters of Providence employee had been deemed a miracle. Pope Benedict’s acceptance of the miracle marked the last step needed for canonization.<\/p>\n
In February, Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara, the congregation’s general superior, said a canonization ceremony could be held as early as this fall.<\/p>\n
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Realizing that my focus has been, and continues to be the history of the clergy in Indiana, I also want to reiterate that my bigger focus is on the history of the Catholic Church in Indiana. With that in mind I want to repeat a story from the Catholic News Service, dated April 28th. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}