In 1885 he was awarded high honors by the Paris Geographic Society
rooted in her Catholic faith and the Gospel of Christ (she was greatly influenced by her brother who was a Canadian priest) and later adopted by Gandhi
Elisabeth and Felix had a deep and passionate love for each other but were separated by their respective belief and unbelief
Pierre Maurin was born in the Languedoc region of France
abandoning the formal habit for a white cotton sari with a blue border denoting her Marian devotion
Sr. Dorothy Stang Chicago Heroes In 1885 he was awardedSr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdN 1931 2005 Dorothy Stang was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1931. While still a teen, she entered the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, an order of religious founded by Saint Julie Billiart to minister exclusively to the poor girls of peasant and farmer families. After professing final vows in 1956, Dorothy was assigned as a teacher for fifteen years in the Chicago area, first at St. Victor in Calumet City, an area