A Nun From New Jersey Is on a Path to Sainthood. Nicole News on Oct 4, 2014 Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich was a nun for only two years at a convent in New Jersey before she died in 1927 at the age …More
A Nun From New Jersey Is on a Path to Sainthood.
Nicole News on Oct 4, 2014 Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich was a nun for only two years at a convent in New Jersey before she died in 1927 at the age of 26. But on Saturday she will edge closer to sainthood when she is beatified at a special Mass in Newark, the first time such a ceremony has been held in the United States. Sister Miriam Teresa was born in Bayonne in 1901, the youngest of seven children of immigrants from present-day Slovakia. She attended Bayonne public schools, and was baptized in the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church. She attended the College of Saint Elizabeth, where she majored in English literature, graduating summa cum laude in 1923. Two years later, she joined the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, N. J. , and was a member of the religious order for two years before she died of acute appendicitis. But she had produced many devotional writings that proved to be influential among Roman Catholics. The doctors determined that there was no medical explanation for his recovery. Theologians then convened and said that it was through Sister Miriam Teresa’s intercession that God had performed a miracle, Sister Mary Canavan said. Last year, Pope Francis declared it a miracle. It was the final step on the path to beatification, which will be celebrated on Saturday at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. To become a saint, Sister Miriam Teresa will have to be credited with another posthumous miracle. Mr. Mencer, who is now 55, plans to carry a relic of Sister Miriam Teresa through the cathedral at the Mass on Saturday and present it to Cardinal Angelo Amato, a representative from the Vatican. The relic is a lock of hair, which is kept in an ornate gold-plated reliquary. Sister Miriam Teresa will become one of seven beatified Americans. Only three native-born Americans have become saints: Elizabeth Anne Seton, Katharine Drexel and Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian. The other nine American saints were foreign-born missionaries. Under Pope Benedict XVI, beatifications were allowed to be held outside of the Vatican for the first time. “To say we’re excited is probably the biggest understatement possible,” said James Goodness, a spokesman for the archdiocese of Newark, which is sponsoring the beatification Mass. "Someone who was from New Jersey has become blessed. It really brings it close to home, and makes it seem possible for any one of us. ”
Nicole News on Oct 4, 2014 Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich was a nun for only two years at a convent in New Jersey before she died in 1927 at the age of 26. But on Saturday she will edge closer to sainthood when she is beatified at a special Mass in Newark, the first time such a ceremony has been held in the United States. Sister Miriam Teresa was born in Bayonne in 1901, the youngest of seven children of immigrants from present-day Slovakia. She attended Bayonne public schools, and was baptized in the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church. She attended the College of Saint Elizabeth, where she majored in English literature, graduating summa cum laude in 1923. Two years later, she joined the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, N. J. , and was a member of the religious order for two years before she died of acute appendicitis. But she had produced many devotional writings that proved to be influential among Roman Catholics. The doctors determined that there was no medical explanation for his recovery. Theologians then convened and said that it was through Sister Miriam Teresa’s intercession that God had performed a miracle, Sister Mary Canavan said. Last year, Pope Francis declared it a miracle. It was the final step on the path to beatification, which will be celebrated on Saturday at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. To become a saint, Sister Miriam Teresa will have to be credited with another posthumous miracle. Mr. Mencer, who is now 55, plans to carry a relic of Sister Miriam Teresa through the cathedral at the Mass on Saturday and present it to Cardinal Angelo Amato, a representative from the Vatican. The relic is a lock of hair, which is kept in an ornate gold-plated reliquary. Sister Miriam Teresa will become one of seven beatified Americans. Only three native-born Americans have become saints: Elizabeth Anne Seton, Katharine Drexel and Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian. The other nine American saints were foreign-born missionaries. Under Pope Benedict XVI, beatifications were allowed to be held outside of the Vatican for the first time. “To say we’re excited is probably the biggest understatement possible,” said James Goodness, a spokesman for the archdiocese of Newark, which is sponsoring the beatification Mass. "Someone who was from New Jersey has become blessed. It really brings it close to home, and makes it seem possible for any one of us. ”