Rite & Reason: Cork woman born in 1907 has been declared Venerable by the Catholic Church - a step on the road to canonisation, but with no guarantees
Rite & Reason: Cork woman born in 1907 has been declared Venerable by the Catholic Church - a step on the road to canonisation, but with no guarantees
Following the canonisation process, which involves a candidate for canonisation meeting certain criteria – including the provision of a miracle or two, or martyrdom – the pope may declare someone to be a saint.Pat Leahy: Smart people still insist the truth of a patent absurdity – that Gerry Adams was never in the IRA
John Henry Newman, an Englishman, worked for some years in Ireland, establishing the Catholic University, the remote ancestor of UCD, and he was canonised in 2019. The miracle which earlier resulted in Newman’s beatification was the recovery from illness of an American deacon, Jack Sullivan. But Newman would be regarded as a very English saint.
People gather for a ceremony at the unveiling of a commemorative plaque to Edel Quinn, former Legion of Mary envoy to East Africa, at Trafalgar Terrace, Seapoint, Co Dublin, in 2007, the centenary year of her birth. Photograph: Eric Luke In 1936, Edel Quinn went as Legion of Mary envoy to Africa, and remained there until her death in Nairobi at the age of 37
Born in Cork in 1907, Quinn worked for a tile company in Dublin, where the manager, a Frenchman named Pierre Landrin, proposed marriage. But she had decided to become a nun. In 1932, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and spent the next 18 months in Newcastle sanatorium in Co Wicklow.
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