TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 1 (UPI) -- A group of nuns in Terre Haute, Ind., broke into robust cheers Saturday when they heard the news that the founder of their order soon will become a saint.
The Indianapolis Star said Pope Benedict XVI announced at mass that the Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin, who started the Sisters of Providence near Terre Haute in 1840, would be canonized in October.
About 250 nuns gathered for a meeting heard the news via a phone call from Rome, the Star said.
The church must credit a candidate with two miracles to advance a beatified person to sainthood. Guerin is believed to have helped heal a nun of cancer in 1908 and heal the right eye of an employee of the order in 2001 through divine intercession.
Guerin -- who founded Catholic schools and orphanages and a girls' academy -- died at 57 in 1856.
