What is Marie Victoire Therese Couderc the Patron Saint of? My sister is doing a report for school on her and we can't find much about her at all.

-- Lyndsay S. (sunnygirl_51@hotmail.com), November 02, 2002

Answers

You might try emailing the order she founded (the cenacle) here I actually tried, for fun, to search for her, and see what I could turn up, seems there is not a whole lot about her.

Good Luck and if you find out let me know, I am curious now.

God Bless

-- (seminarian@ziplip.com), November 02, 2002.

Here are a few other links as well for you :

http://www.multimania.com/cenacle/stcouderc.html http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintm9d.htm

I also dug this up at the Vatican Library : http://www.vaticanlibrary.vatlib.it/BAVT/recherche/NoticesDetaillees. asp?lDebut=0&chk0=on#

Oliver

-- Oliver Fischer (spicenut@excite.com), November 03, 2002.

sorry that library link doesn't work. Essentially you get a record of a book :

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (GEAC Advance)

Author : Hugon, Edouard, O.P., 1867-1929. Title : La spiritualité de la Mère Thérèse Couderc.

I don't know how easily available this book would be, but good luck in your search anyways.

-- Oliver Fischer (spicenut@excite.com), November 03, 2002.

Hello, Lyndsay

I don't think St. Couderc is the Patron saint of anything at this present time. Maybe in a few years there will be a miraculous cure attributed to prayers to this Saint and she will become the Patron Saint of some cause.

Her feastday is celebrated on Sept. 26 in the Catholic Church, and she was Canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.

God bless you

David

-- David (David@excite.com), November 03, 2002.

I haven't been able to find what she's patron saint of, either. Found information ABOUT her but not that part. :( Hmmmmmmm....

And David, I thought some miracle had to be attributed to a person in order for them to be made a saint in the first place. Am I wrong on this?

-- Jackiea (sorry@dontlikespam.com), November 03, 2002.

Hi, Jackiea

"And David, I thought some miracle had to be attributed to a person in order for them to be made a Saint in the first place. Am I wrong on this?"

No Jackiea you are not wrong on that. I believe, I rember John and Hollis talking about how many miracles are reqired a few weeks ago. I think it is two miracles reqired but the Pope can change this, I believe.

But every Saint does not have a Patronage. And the miracles attributed to a Saint before they can be Canonized are not necesarily, what the Saint will be a Patron Saint of. Here's an example of the top of my head:

One of the miracles attributed to Saint Setons' Canonization was a little girl who was on her death bed with cancer. The Doctors gave the little girl's parents no hope and sent her home to die. But after Nuns started praying for the little girl and blessing her with a seton relic the little girls cancer disapeared with the Grace of God. To this day the Lady is a healthy 57 year old Lady.

Now Mother Seton is the Patron Saint for death of children, in law problems, loss of Parents, opposition of Church Authorities, People ridiculed for poverty, diocese of Louisiana, widows, but she is Not listed as a Patron Saint for people with cancer. but that doesn't mean she wouldn't be there to help if asked. I pray to her daily for my Mom.

But what I was talking about when I mentioned a miracle attibuted to St. Couderc to make her a patron saint was like a Patron Saint for someone to quit smoking for instance. Rember Isabel asked back at the end of July and there was none. But John did give her saint Kolbe for the chemical addiction. But maybe if a smoker were miracously cured from lung cancer(please God) from prayers attrubuted to St.Couderc that this would be a way to become a Patron Saint for someone trying to quit smoking.[ Just my thoughts]

May Mother Seton pray for you, and your family during this difficult time.

God bless you

David S

PS; Isabel I hope you were succesful in quiting. If not, Try it again.

-- David (David@excite.com), November 04, 2002.

Thanks, David-excite, for telling about that little girl with cancer -- who is still alive now in her middle age. I didn't know about her.
I love St. Seton, who was canonized when I was a student. I am still praying every day for your mom to be cured.

God bless you.
John

-- (jfgecik@hotmail.com), November 06, 2002.

Hi, John

Thanks for the prayers for Mom, and thanks for telling me about Venerable Mother Thecla Merlo. I have been praying to her daily too.

Actually the Sacred Congregation declared that God had shown His good pleasures in Mother Seton's glorification by working two miraculous cures of cancer: The cure of Sister Gertrude Korzendorfer, D.C., of cancer of the head of the pancreas in January 1935 and the cure of Anne Theresa O'Neill (The Lady I mentioned in first post to Jackiea) of acute Leukemia (Lymphatic type) at the age of four in 1952.

In October of the same year, 1963, a Lutheran construction worker named Carl Kalin was cured of a rare brain disease through Mother Seton intercession. After eight years of intensive study, the Holy See declared that cure truly miraculous, and Pope Paul VI decreed her cannization on December 12,1974.

I rember the day when St.Elizabeth Ann Seon was canonized too John. I was a little guy in St. John's School in the 5th grade. It was a big day at school, and the school is only 20 miles from the Seton Shrine. The good Sister's were very pleased. [Sept 14 1975]

Mother Seton please pray for my Mom.

God bless you

David

PS; There were four miracles reqired at the time Jackiea, but the Pope gave a dispensation for the fourth.

-- David (David@excite.com), November 06, 2002.

i can only find information on catholic forum.com and it not alot im doing a report for confirmation class too.Good Luck and if you find any more info write back

-- nichole (scoobydoo@yahoo.com), April 23, 2004.

This is the Blurb from Catholic Online:

Catholic Online Saints St. Marie Teresa Couderc Feastday: September 26

Foundress of the Society of Our lady of the Cenacle at La Louvesc, France. She was born on February 1, at Masle, France. Joining Father J. Terme in his parish work in Aps, she founded the Daughters of St. Regis, the original group that became the Society. She served as superior until 1838 and then resumed the role of a simple member of the com­munity until her death on September 26. By the time of her death, her congregation spread rapidly. Pope Paul VI canonized her in 1970.

Dano

PS: I think contacting her order is the best idea for getting more info. They will have a better bio.

-- Dan Garon (boethius61@yahoo.com), April 23, 2004.