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Also known as: Mother
Theodore; Anne-Thérèse Guérin
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Daughter of Laurent and Isabelle Guérin. Joined the Sisters of Providence
at Ruillé-sur-Loir, France on 18 August 1823, taking the name Sister Saint
Theodore, and making her final vows on 5 September 1831. Taught in Rennes
and Soulaines, France.
Sent with five other sisters (Sister Olympiade Boyer, Sister Saint Vincent
Ferrer Gagé, Sister Basilide Sénéschal, Sister Mary Xavier Lerée and
Sister Mary Liguori Tiercin) to the diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, USA on
22 October 1840. They established the Academy of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
on 4 July 1841 at Terre Haute, Indiana, the first Catholic women's
liberal-arts college in the United States. She established schools at
Jasper, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Village, Vincennes, Montgomery, Madison,
Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, Evansville, North Madison, Lanesville and
Columbus, all in Indiana, and Saint Francisville in Illinois. Founded an
orphanage for girls and one for boys in Vincennes, Indiana. Opened
pharmacies where medicines were dispensed free to the poor at Vincennes
and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Oversaw construction of a
motherhouse for the Sisters of Providence and several additions to the
Academy.
Her cause for beatification began in 1909.
Born: 1798 at Etables-sur-Mer, Brittany, France as Anne-Thérèse
Guérin
Died: 14 May 1856 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, of natural
causes; buried at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint
Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, USA
Venerable
22 July 1992 by Pope John Paul II
Beatified
25 October 1998 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City
Canonized
pending; to reach Sister Marie Kevin Tighe, promoter of the Cause for
Canonization, email
mtigheatspsmw.org, or telephone 812.535.3131 x 204.
source:
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintt26.htm
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