Episodes about "religious women"

Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich

Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich

Bl. Miriam was the first American to be beatified on US soil in 2014, but before that, as Tom and Noëlle Crowe tell us, she was a Ruthenian Catholic Sister of Charity known for her profound spiritual insight and writings, even as a novice, before she died at just 26 years old.
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St. Mary’s, Galveston

St. Mary’s, Galveston

In 1900, the Cathedral of St. Mary’s, Galveston was the only Catholic church to survive the great hurricane which killed 20% of Galveston’s population.

Rose Hawthorne

Rose Hawthorne

Rose Hawthorne was born into American literary royalty, but converted to Catholicism and eventually founded the Dominicans of Hawthorne and a hospital.

Loretto Staircase

Loretto Staircase

The “miraculous” Loretto Staircase is in the Chapel of the Sisters of Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was purportedly built by St. Joseph.

Henriette DeLille

Henriette DeLille

Henriette DeLille was a woman of mixed race in antebellum New Orleans who rejected the placage system and founded an order that educated the children of slaves

Stagecoach Mary

Stagecoach Mary

Mary Fields, AKA “Stagecoach Mary,” was a gun-toting, hard-drinking, street-brawling black woman on the Montana frontier, with a soft spot for some Ursulines

Mount Saint Macrina

Mount Saint Macrina

Every year, thousands of Eastern Rite Byzantine Catholics gather in uniontown in western Pennsylvania on pilgrimage to Mount Saint Macrina.