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First step on the road to sainthood for Mary Ward

Mass in Westminster Cathedral to celebrate
Bar Convent Sisters and All Saints School attend
More than 2,300 people attended a service at Westminster Cathedral recently when the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, conducted a Celebratory Mass in honour of Mary Ward and the 400th Jubilee of the foundation of the Congregation of Jesus and the [...]

By webmaster on March 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Venerable Mary Ward

On 19th December 2009 Pope Benedict XVI formally published a Decree recognising the ‘heroic virtue’ demonstrated by Mary Ward and thereby conferring on her the title ‘Venerable’. Her cause will now go forward to the next stage in the process towards beatification and eventual canonization.

Mary Ward (1585-1645) was a Catholic Yorkshire woman, related to several [...]

By webmaster on December 25, 2009 | Leave a comment