Feast day: October 3
St. Mother Théodore Guérin
A French sister sent to the American frontier of Indiana, who against poverty, illness, and a hostile bishop founded schools, an academy, and the Sisters of Providence in the woods.
Arriving in the Indiana forest with almost nothing, she built a women's college and a network of frontier schools — and is one of the founding saints of American Catholic education.
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