Celebrated on: October 3
Foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.
Born in Etaples, France, Anne-Thérèse's life was shattered by her father's murder when she was 15. For several years she cared for her mother and younger sister. She entered the Sisters of Providence in 1823, taking the name Sister St. Theodore. An illness during novitiate left her with lifelong fragile health; that did not keep her from becoming an accomplished teacher.
At the invitation of the bishop of Vincennes, she and five sisters were sent to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, to teach and to care for the sick poor. She was to establish a motherhouse and novitiate. Only later did she learn that her French superiors had already decided the sisters in the United States should form a new religious congregation under her leadership.
She and her community persevered despite fires, crop failures, prejudice against Catholic women religious, misunderstandings and separation from their original religious congregation. She once told her sisters, "Have confidence in the Providence that so far has never failed us. The way is not yet clear. Grope along slowly. Do not press matters; be patient, be trustful." Another time, she asked, "With Jesus, what shall we have to fear?" She is buried in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was beatified in 1998 and canonized in 2006.
An American Saint.
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Born: Oct. 2, 1798, in the village of Etables-sur-Mer in Brittany, France
Birth name: Anne-Thérèse Guerin
Parents: Laurent and Isabelle Guerin
Entered Sisters of Providence at Ruillé-sur-Loir, France: Aug. 18, 1823
Religious name: Sister St. Theodore
Professed first vows: Sept. 8, 1825
Professed perpetual vows: Sept. 5, 1831
Ministries in France: Taught at Preuilly-sur-Claise and served as superior of schools in Rennes and Soulaines, where she also ministered among the sick poor.
Missionary voyage from France to New York: July 27, 1840, to Sept. 4, 1840
Sisters of Providence who accompanied Mother Theodore to the United States of America to establish the mission at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.: Sister Olympiade Boyer, Sister St. Vincent Ferrer Gagé, Sister Basilide Seneschal, Sister Mary Xavier Lerée and Sister Mary Liguori Tiercin
Date of arrival at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Oct. 22, 1840
Opened Academy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: July 4, 1841
A Celtic cross stands as a memorial to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Etched in the base are the words: "I sleep, but my heart watches over this house which I have built."
Other establishments opened by Mother Theodore: 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 St. Francisville in Illinois; also two orphanages, one for girls, the other for boys in Vincennes. In addition, Mother Theodore opened pharmacies where free remedies were dispensed to the poor at Vincennes and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She also oversaw the construction of a new motherhouse for the Sisters of Providence and several additions to the Academy, both at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.
Date of death: May 14, 1856
Place of burial: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. (A Celtic cross of stone memorializes Saint Mother Theodore's former burial site in the Sisters of Providence Cemetery at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.)
Opening of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Mother Theodore: Sept. 8, 1909
Received title "Venerable" from the Roman Catholic Church: by Pope John Paul II on July 22, 1992, in recognition of a virtuous life lived to a heroic degree.
Received title "Blessed" from the Roman Catholic Church: by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 25, 1998, during a beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome.
Canonized: Oct. 15, 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome.
Feast Day for Saint Mother Theodore: Oct. 3.
Shrine honoring Saint Mother Theodore: An interim shrine is located at the front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Visitors are welcome.
Foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.
Born in Etaples, France, Anne-Thérèse's life was shattered by her father's murder when she was 15. For several years she cared for her mother and younger sister. She entered the Sisters of Providence in 1823, taking the name Sister St. Theodore. An illness during novitiate left her with lifelong fragile health; that did not keep her from becoming an accomplished teacher.
At the invitation of the bishop of Vincennes, she and five sisters were sent to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, to teach and to care for the sick poor. She was to establish a motherhouse and novitiate. Only later did she learn that her French superiors had already decided the sisters in the United States should form a new religious congregation under her leadership.
She and her community persevered despite fires, crop failures, prejudice against Catholic women religious, misunderstandings and separation from their original religious congregation. She once told her sisters, "Have confidence in the Providence that so far has never failed us. The way is not yet clear. Grope along slowly. Do not press matters; be patient, be trustful." Another time, she asked, "With Jesus, what shall we have to fear?" She is buried in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was beatified in 1998 and canonized in 2006.
An American Saint.
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Gu%C3%A9rin
http://www.spsmw.org/SistersofProvidence/Becomeasister/Whoarewe/tabid/961/Default.aspx
Born: Oct. 2, 1798, in the village of Etables-sur-Mer in Brittany, France
Birth name: Anne-Thérèse Guerin
Parents: Laurent and Isabelle Guerin
Entered Sisters of Providence at Ruillé-sur-Loir, France: Aug. 18, 1823
Religious name: Sister St. Theodore
Professed first vows: Sept. 8, 1825
Professed perpetual vows: Sept. 5, 1831
Ministries in France: Taught at Preuilly-sur-Claise and served as superior of schools in Rennes and Soulaines, where she also ministered among the sick poor.
Missionary voyage from France to New York: July 27, 1840, to Sept. 4, 1840
Sisters of Providence who accompanied Mother Theodore to the United States of America to establish the mission at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.: Sister Olympiade Boyer, Sister St. Vincent Ferrer Gagé, Sister Basilide Seneschal, Sister Mary Xavier Lerée and Sister Mary Liguori Tiercin
Date of arrival at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Oct. 22, 1840
Opened Academy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: July 4, 1841
A Celtic cross stands as a memorial to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Etched in the base are the words: "I sleep, but my heart watches over this house which I have built."
Other establishments opened by Mother Theodore: 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 St. Francisville in Illinois; also two orphanages, one for girls, the other for boys in Vincennes. In addition, Mother Theodore opened pharmacies where free remedies were dispensed to the poor at Vincennes and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She also oversaw the construction of a new motherhouse for the Sisters of Providence and several additions to the Academy, both at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.
Date of death: May 14, 1856
Place of burial: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. (A Celtic cross of stone memorializes Saint Mother Theodore's former burial site in the Sisters of Providence Cemetery at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.)
Opening of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Mother Theodore: Sept. 8, 1909
Received title "Venerable" from the Roman Catholic Church: by Pope John Paul II on July 22, 1992, in recognition of a virtuous life lived to a heroic degree.
Received title "Blessed" from the Roman Catholic Church: by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 25, 1998, during a beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome.
Canonized: Oct. 15, 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome.
Feast Day for Saint Mother Theodore: Oct. 3.
Shrine honoring Saint Mother Theodore: An interim shrine is located at the front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Visitors are welcome.
Celebrated on: October 3
Foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.
Born in Etaples, France, Anne-Thérèse's life was shattered by her father's murder when she was 15. For several years she cared for her mother and younger sister. She entered the Sisters of Providence in 1823, taking the name Sister St. Theodore. An illness during novitiate left her with lifelong fragile health; that did not keep her from becoming an accomplished teacher.
At the invitation of the bishop of Vincennes, she and five sisters were sent to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, to teach and to care for the sick poor. She was to establish a motherhouse and novitiate. Only later did she learn that her French superiors had already decided the sisters in the United States should form a new religious congregation under her leadership.
She and her community persevered despite fires, crop failures, prejudice against Catholic women religious, misunderstandings and separation from their original religious congregation. She once told her sisters, "Have confidence in the Providence that so far has never failed us. The way is not yet clear. Grope along slowly. Do not press matters; be patient, be trustful." Another time, she asked, "With Jesus, what shall we have to fear?" She is buried in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was beatified in 1998 and canonized in 2006.
An American Saint.
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Gu%C3%A9rin
http://www.spsmw.org/SistersofProvidence/Becomeasister/Whoarewe/tabid/961/Default.aspx
Born: Oct. 2, 1798, in the village of Etables-sur-Mer in Brittany, France
Birth name: Anne-Thérèse Guerin
Parents: Laurent and Isabelle Guerin
Entered Sisters of Providence at Ruillé-sur-Loir, France: Aug. 18, 1823
Religious name: Sister St. Theodore
Professed first vows: Sept. 8, 1825
Professed perpetual vows: Sept. 5, 1831
Ministries in France: Taught at Preuilly-sur-Claise and served as superior of schools in Rennes and Soulaines, where she also ministered among the sick poor.
Missionary voyage from France to New York: July 27, 1840, to Sept. 4, 1840
Sisters of Providence who accompanied Mother Theodore to the United States of America to establish the mission at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.: Sister Olympiade Boyer, Sister St. Vincent Ferrer Gagé, Sister Basilide Seneschal, Sister Mary Xavier Lerée and Sister Mary Liguori Tiercin
Date of arrival at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Oct. 22, 1840
Opened Academy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: July 4, 1841
A Celtic cross stands as a memorial to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Etched in the base are the words: "I sleep, but my heart watches over this house which I have built."
Other establishments opened by Mother Theodore: 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 St. Francisville in Illinois; also two orphanages, one for girls, the other for boys in Vincennes. In addition, Mother Theodore opened pharmacies where free remedies were dispensed to the poor at Vincennes and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She also oversaw the construction of a new motherhouse for the Sisters of Providence and several additions to the Academy, both at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.
Date of death: May 14, 1856
Place of burial: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. (A Celtic cross of stone memorializes Saint Mother Theodore's former burial site in the Sisters of Providence Cemetery at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.)
Opening of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Mother Theodore: Sept. 8, 1909
Received title "Venerable" from the Roman Catholic Church: by Pope John Paul II on July 22, 1992, in recognition of a virtuous life lived to a heroic degree.
Received title "Blessed" from the Roman Catholic Church: by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 25, 1998, during a beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome.
Canonized: Oct. 15, 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome.
Feast Day for Saint Mother Theodore: Oct. 3.
Shrine honoring Saint Mother Theodore: An interim shrine is located at the front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Visitors are welcome.
Foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.
Born in Etaples, France, Anne-Thérèse's life was shattered by her father's murder when she was 15. For several years she cared for her mother and younger sister. She entered the Sisters of Providence in 1823, taking the name Sister St. Theodore. An illness during novitiate left her with lifelong fragile health; that did not keep her from becoming an accomplished teacher.
At the invitation of the bishop of Vincennes, she and five sisters were sent to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, to teach and to care for the sick poor. She was to establish a motherhouse and novitiate. Only later did she learn that her French superiors had already decided the sisters in the United States should form a new religious congregation under her leadership.
She and her community persevered despite fires, crop failures, prejudice against Catholic women religious, misunderstandings and separation from their original religious congregation. She once told her sisters, "Have confidence in the Providence that so far has never failed us. The way is not yet clear. Grope along slowly. Do not press matters; be patient, be trustful." Another time, she asked, "With Jesus, what shall we have to fear?" She is buried in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was beatified in 1998 and canonized in 2006.
An American Saint.
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Gu%C3%A9rin
http://www.spsmw.org/SistersofProvidence/Becomeasister/Whoarewe/tabid/961/Default.aspx
Born: Oct. 2, 1798, in the village of Etables-sur-Mer in Brittany, France
Birth name: Anne-Thérèse Guerin
Parents: Laurent and Isabelle Guerin
Entered Sisters of Providence at Ruillé-sur-Loir, France: Aug. 18, 1823
Religious name: Sister St. Theodore
Professed first vows: Sept. 8, 1825
Professed perpetual vows: Sept. 5, 1831
Ministries in France: Taught at Preuilly-sur-Claise and served as superior of schools in Rennes and Soulaines, where she also ministered among the sick poor.
Missionary voyage from France to New York: July 27, 1840, to Sept. 4, 1840
Sisters of Providence who accompanied Mother Theodore to the United States of America to establish the mission at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.: Sister Olympiade Boyer, Sister St. Vincent Ferrer Gagé, Sister Basilide Seneschal, Sister Mary Xavier Lerée and Sister Mary Liguori Tiercin
Date of arrival at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Oct. 22, 1840
Opened Academy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: July 4, 1841
A Celtic cross stands as a memorial to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Etched in the base are the words: "I sleep, but my heart watches over this house which I have built."
Other establishments opened by Mother Theodore: 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 St. Francisville in Illinois; also two orphanages, one for girls, the other for boys in Vincennes. In addition, Mother Theodore opened pharmacies where free remedies were dispensed to the poor at Vincennes and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She also oversaw the construction of a new motherhouse for the Sisters of Providence and several additions to the Academy, both at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.
Date of death: May 14, 1856
Place of burial: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. (A Celtic cross of stone memorializes Saint Mother Theodore's former burial site in the Sisters of Providence Cemetery at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.)
Opening of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Mother Theodore: Sept. 8, 1909
Received title "Venerable" from the Roman Catholic Church: by Pope John Paul II on July 22, 1992, in recognition of a virtuous life lived to a heroic degree.
Received title "Blessed" from the Roman Catholic Church: by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 25, 1998, during a beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome.
Canonized: Oct. 15, 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome.
Feast Day for Saint Mother Theodore: Oct. 3.
Shrine honoring Saint Mother Theodore: An interim shrine is located at the front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Visitors are welcome.
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Etched in the base are the words: "I sleep, but my heart watches over this house which I have built."
