Order Of Nuns Opens Shrine To St. Mother Theodore Guerin

Associated Press

Sister Nancy Nolan begins a tour for a group of people Saturday during the grand opening of the new permanent shrine for Saint Mother Theodore Guerin.
*Courtesy The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods*

ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS, Ind. (AP) — A western Indiana order of nuns has opened a new shrine to its founder, St. Mother Theodore Guerin, that recounts her journey from her native France to the Hoosier wilderness.

The Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods opened the shrine Saturday. The Tribune-Star reports the centerpiece of the shrine is a quiet chapel-style area with a smooth casket in the middle, holding the remains of the saint. Three of her finger bones can be viewed and touched by visitors.

Guerin was the eighth saint declared in the U.S. and the only saint from Indiana. Pope Benedict XVI named Guerin a saint in 2006.

The order based outside Terre Haute was founded by Guerin in 1840.

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