Saint theodore guerin biography of mahatma gandhi

St. Mother Théodore Guérin was a bold missionary who, despite her reluctance, established schools in Indiana at the same time that Father Sorin founded Notre Dame.

She was born as Anne Therese in in France in the thick of the French Revolution.

Her father was an officer in the French navy under Napoleon and when Anne was fifteen, he was murdered by bandits.

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Her mother fell into a deep depression and so Anne devoted herself to caring for her mother and sister and their household for ten years. Throughout all these years, Anne&#;s childhood desire to enter religious life only grew stronger.

Finally, when she was twenty-five years old, her mother allowed Anne to enter the Sisters of Providence in Ruillé sur-Loir.

As a nun, Anne took the name Théodore and became a teacher. For a dozen years, she taught in Rennes, in central France and cared for the local poor there.

During this time of ministry, Théodore fell ill from smallpox. Although she escaped death, the disease ravaged he