UPDATE- AMERICAN HOLY PEOPLE

 

Father Philip Nolan, editor of Magnificat, says,"If you want to understand Scripture, look to the saints; if you want to understand tthe saints, look to Scripture."  This is very true of the American women whose path to sainthood has been furtheed along .

Today, June 18, Pope Leo XIV declared American religious SISTER MARY TERESA TALLON venerable ( Blog 7/30/2017). She was the foundress of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate in New York.

The new venerable was born in 1867, in Hanover, New York, as the daughter of Irish immigrants.

In 1887, at the age of 19, Tallon joined the Sisters of the Holy Cross, despite her family’s disapproval. She remained part of the congregation for the next 33 years, teaching in Catholic schools in South Bend, Indiana.

She went on to establish a new congregation dedicated to contemplation and to preaching the Gospel to the neglected. In 1920, she left the Sisters of the Holy Cross and, on Aug. 15, established the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate (PVMI). She gave it the motto “Make every soul count.”

A gifted scholar, Venerable Tallon authored a report documenting the first decade of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in New York for the National Catechetical Congress in 1936.

She died on Feb. 10, 1954, after a prolonged illness.