Theodore Guerin

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Theodore Guerin


Born
in Etables-sur-Mer, Brittany, France
October 02, 1798

Died
May 14, 1856

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Saint Mother Theodore Guerin was the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.

Born Anne-Thérèse Guérin on Oct. 2, 1798, she joined the Sisters of Providence at Ruillé-sur-Loir, France in 1823 and took the name Sister St. Theodore. After several years teaching and tending to the sick poor in France, she was sent to the United States of America to begin a new congregation of sisters in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.

Mother Theodore went on to establish numerous schools, orphanages and pharmacies in Indiana and Illinois. She died on May 14, 1856 and is buried at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.

She was beatified on Oct. 25, 1998, by Pope John Paul II and canonized as Saint Theo
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“We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.”
Theodore Guerin, Journals and Letters of Mother Theodore Guerin