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Mother Theodore Guerin: Indiana's Very Own Saint
By John F. Fink
The founder of the Sisters of Providence survived rough seas, poor health and one bad-tempered bishop. Last month she was canonized.
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*	St. Theodora; The Legacy of a Miracle Worker
SIX NUNS AND A PRIEST?Father Stanislaus Buteux?jh/ere traveling on a stagecoach through thicR forests on a nonexistent road on October 22, coach had already overturned once in a deep mud hole, throwing the passengers out. At another point, they had crossed the Wabash River, which was so deep the horses were swimming.
?Suddenly,? one of the nuns later recorded,
?Father Buteux stopped the carriage and said, ?Come down, sisters, we have arrived.? What was our astonishment to find ourselves still in the midst of the forest, no village, not even a house in sight.?
Father Buteux led them down into a ravine from which they could see a frame house and some sheds on the other side. This was to be their home, deep in the woods of western Indiana. The sisters wondered how it woulcflW?fl??^55!!?>lble to establish a novitiate and a school in this remote forest. That, though, was their plan.
The nun who recorded their arrival was Mother Theodore	who	was
ca nonizgd^j^Octoberl 5 of this year as St. Theodora. She and the other five Sisfet^^roviaSffBWSW already experienced a harrowing trip from France.
The journey had taken more than three months. Their ship was almost destroyed several times by a hurricane and other severe storms.
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Mother Theodore?s diary described the feeling of ?passing the night in the bottom of a vessel, hearing continually the dreadful creaking which makes one fear that it will split open.? After another storm, she wrote, ?Nothing was heard on board but screams and lamentations.?
Finally reaching New York on September 4, 1840, she wrote, ?We threw ourselves on our knees with hearts full of gratitude.? But their problems weren?t over yet. The sisters had expected a representative of Bishop Celestine de la Hailandiere of Vincennes, Indiana, to meet the ship when it docked, but there
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