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OUR STORY AS TOLD THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF SAINT MOTHER THEODORE GUERIN

“Do not give way to uneasiness about the future.”

“This is the path traced by Providence. And I follow it.” — Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

“In the evening we remained on deck to see and examine at leisure the ravishing spectacle before us. It would take an abler pen than mine to describe it properly, if, indeed, it can be described.”

June 1840, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and five sisters of Providence set off from France

“The sea was no longer beneath our feet, we were on the soil of America! Impossible to describe what passed within our hearts at that moment.”

October 20, 1840, reached Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana

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“The way is not yet clear.”

“It is astonishing that this remote solitude has been chosen for a novitiate and especially for an academy. All appearances are against it.”

“As to our garden and yard, we have all the woods. And the wilderness is our only cloister, for our house is like an oak tree planted therein.”

Academy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College for girls, July 4, 1841

Canonized Saint Theodora October 15, 2006, by Pope Benedict XVI becoming Indiana’s first saint. Her remains lie in The Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

1973 - Introduced one of the first independent study programs in the nation, which would eventually become Woods Online

1846 - Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College granted first charter for higher education of women in the State of Indiana

“I sleep, but my heart watches over this house I have built.”

“Mon Dieu! How happy I should be if I could see you become someday what you ought to be!”

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