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Saint Mother Theodore

Saint Theodora Guerin SP
MothereTheodora Guerin
Religion Roman Catholic
Order Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
Personal
Nationality  France  United States
Born Anne-Thérèse Guérin
(1798-10-02)October 2, 1798
Étables-sur-Mer, France
Died May 14, 1856(1856-05-14) (aged 57)
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, United States
Resting place Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and Sisters of Providence Convent Cemetery, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
Parents Laurent Guérin, des Sieurs du Rocher and Elisabeth le Fèvre
Senior posting
Title Foundress and Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
Period in office 1840 - 1856
Successor Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly
Rank Superior General
Religious career
Profession September 8, 1825
Post Foundress and Superior General
Saint Theodora Guerin
Saint Theodora Guerin
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Beatified October 1998, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Canonized October 15, 2006, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI
Major shrine Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin near the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
Feast October 3
Patronage Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana

Mother Théodore Guérin (1798–1856), designated by the Vatican as Saint Theodora, was a French-American saint and is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, a congregation of Catholic nuns. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October 1998 and canonized a saint of the Roman Catholic church on October 15, 2006, by Pope Benedict XVI. Her feast day is October 3.

Guerin is particularly known for her advancement of education in Indiana and elsewhere, founding numerous schools including Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.

She was born Anne-Thérèse Guérin on October 2, 1798, in the village of Étables-sur-Mer in Brittany, France. Her parents were Laurent Guérin, an officer in the French Navy under Napoleon Bonaparte, and Isabelle Guérin, née Lefèvre. Anne-Thérèse was born near the end of the French Revolution, which had torn France apart and caused a crisis within French Catholicism. Schools and churches were closed, and many Catholic priests had chosen exile over the guillotine.

Laurent and Isabelle had four children, but only two — Anne-Thérèse and Marie-Jeanne — survived to adulthood. Anne-Thérèse was mostly educated at home by her mother. At the age of 10, she was allowed to take her First Communion, which was two years earlier than the custom of the time. On the day of her First Communion, she confided to the priest in Etables that she wished to enter a religious community.


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