Our Indiana saint, Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin will have her canonization formally declared a week from today:

The Vatican today announced the date for a ceremony that will pave the way for the canonization of Mother Theodore Guerin, the 19th century nun who founded St. Mary-of-the Woods College.

The ceremony, planned for July 1 in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, centers on the reading of decrees approving sainthood for beatified faithful. The date for the canonization ceremony itself is usually announced about the same time as the decree reading.

Here’s the CNA story

The Indy Archdiocese page on Mother Guerin

The Sisters of Providence page.

We visited the Motherhouse several years ago and had a really hard time finding Mother Guerin’s grave – she’s buried underneath the floor of the church, it wasn’t well marked, and oddest of all, it wasn’t set apart by any barriers and you could just sort of walk over the spot. I’m thinking they must have spruced it up a bit by now…

The newly updated calendar of papal celebrations for the summer, which includes an Assumption Mass at a church in Castel Gandolfo.

Two beatifications were announced for the fall (and remember, Benedict has moved beatifications back to the location where the blessed lived and was first honored, and away from the Vatican), one of this Hungarian sister:

Sister Sara Salkahazi, a nun shot to death for sheltering Jews in Hungary during World War II, will be beatified in Budapest this fall.

Bishop Andras Veres, secretary of the Hungarian bishops’ conference, said on Thursday that the beatification will be conducted by Cardinal Peter Erdo, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and president of the Hungarian episcopal conference, on Sept. 17 in St. Stephen’s Basilica.

In April, Benedict XVI signed a decree on Sister Salkahazi’s martyrdom, a document paving the way for her beatification.

A member of the Sisters of Social Service, a charity organization helping the poor, the woman religious was a journalist, a writer and a cultural activist. She helped to shelter hundreds of Jews, including many women and children, in a convent in the final months of the war.

She was reported to the authorities, and henchmen of the ruling fascist Arrow Cross Party drove her and the people she had sheltered to the banks of the Danube River and shot them on Dec. 27, 1944.

The Sisters of Social Service saved more than 1,000 lives during the war.

In doing a bit of research on this Sister, I ran across this interesting letter to the editor of America magazine:

I am from Hungary. I entered our community there, the Sisters of Social Service, in 1944, the last year of World War II. As a first-year novice, I was shielded from information about our sisters’ involvement in trying to save the lives of persecuted people. After becoming a vowed member, I learned how Sister Margaret Slachta, our foundress, went to the nunciature in Budapest for baptismal certificates to take into the ghettoes. Many were saved by such documents. Sister Margaret was not alone doing this; there were several others. So did our Sister Natalie Palagyi, Sister Rosa Katalin Peitl and Sister Sara Salkahazi, who in fact was shot and thrown into the Danube for hiding Jews in the home for working women that she managed. By now they have all returned to God.