Image:smtyearbook.jpg '''Sister Miriam Teresa''', born '''Teresa Demjanovich''' (March_26 1901–May_8 1927) was a United_States Roman_Catholic Sister of Charity. Teresa Demjanovich was born in Bayonne,_New_Jersey, on March_26, 1901, the youngest of seven children. At an early age she ardently desired to dedicate her life to religion. Teresa completed her grammar school education at the age of eleven, she received her high school diploma in January 1917, from the Bayonne_High_School.In 1917, Bayonne_High_School was located in what is now the Robinson_School. At this time she wished very much to become a Carmelite, but the lingering illness of her mother kept her at home as nurse and housekeeper. After her mother’s death in November, 1918, Teresa was strongly encouraged by her family to attend the College_of_Saint_Elizabeth at Convent_Station,_New_Jersey. She began her college career in September, 1919. She received her college degree with highest honors in June, 1923. As always, she longed for the religious life, but various circumstances made her uncertain regarding which community she should enter. Meanwhile she accepted a teaching position at the Academy of Saint Aloysius in Jersey_City (now known as the Caritas_Academy)See {{cite web | title=CARITAS ACADEMY TO OPEN IN JERSEY CITY, SEPTEMBER, 2006 | work= | url=http://www.scnj.org/news_display.asp?ID=47 | accessdate=2006-06-25}}. Not until December, 1924, was she certain that she should become a Sister of Charity, and with her decision she knew she had very special work to do in this Community. Just what the nature of the work was to be she did not know until several months after her entrance, February_11, 1925. Teresa’s spiritual director in religion, Father Benedict Bradley, a Benedictine (died December_29, 1945), discerning her remarkable gifts, directed her, with the consent of the Mother_Superior, to write a series of conferences which, published posthumously, form the volume entitled GREATER PERFECTION. Teresa’s life in religion was short, but filled with much work and suffering. Like Therese_of_Lisieux, she apparently lived a long time in a short space. She died May_8, 1927. Since her death Sister Miriam Teresa has made many friends all over the world. Favors and cures attributed to her intercession are continually being reported. In the latter part of 1945 a communication was received from Rome authorizing Bishop McLaughlin of the Paterson Diocese, in which diocese the General House of the Sisters of Charity is located, to institute an ordinary informative process concerning Sister Miriam Teresa’s life and virtues. Rev. Stephen W Findlay, O.S.B, Delbarton_School, Morristown,_NJ, was appointed Procurator, and the official investigation began early in 1946.{{cite book | first=Teresa | last=Demjanovich | title=A Blueprint for Holiness: Selections From the Writings of Sister Miriam Teresa | publisher=Sister Miriam Teresa League of Prayer | location=Convent Station, New Jersey | year=1979 | pages=29-31 }} Dr. Silvia Correale is the present Postulator for the Cause of Sister Miriam Teresa in the Congregation_for_the_Causes_of_Saints. Sister Marian José Smith, S.C. is the Vice Postulator. {{cite journal | title=The Director's Column | author = Sister Marian José Smith | journal=Sister Miriam Teresa League of Prayer Bulletin | year=October 2003 | volume=57 | issue=3 | pages=2 }} ==References== ===Other Publications by Sister Miriam Teresa=== *{{cite book | editor= Edited by Charles C. Demjanovich | title=Greater Perfection: Being the Spiritual Conferences of Sister Miriam Teresa | origyear=1928 | publisher=P.J. Kenedy & Sons | location=New York }} *{{cite book | editor= Edited by Charles C. Demjanovich | title=The Seventieth Week | year=1954 | publisher=St. Anthony Guild Press | location=Paterson, New Jersey }} *{{cite book | title=Mediations on the Stations_of_the_Cross | publisher=Sister Miriam Teresa League of Prayer | location=Convent Station, New Jersey }} *{{cite book | title=The Sacrifice of the Mass: The Greatest Means of Sanctification | publisher=Sister Miriam Teresa League of Prayer | location=Convent Station, New Jersey }} ===Biographies=== *{{cite book | last=Harris | first=Elizabeth | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title= Sister Miriam Teresa | origdate= | origyear=1959 | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1979 | month= | publisher=Sister Miriam Teresa League of Prayer | location=Convent Station, New Jersey | language= | id= | pages= | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=by a Sister of Charity | first= | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title= Sister Miriam Teresa | origdate= | origyear=1936 | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1957 | month= | publisher=Benzinger Brothers | location=New York | language= | id= | pages= | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=Conklin | first=Margaret | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=An American Teresa | origdate= | origyear=1946 | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1981 | month= | publisher=Color Graphic Press | location=Long Island City, NY | language= | id= | pages= | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=Chambre | first=Renée | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=Soeur Miriam Térèsa, Apôtre de l'unité | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1970 | month= | publisher= | location=Québec | language=French | id= | pages= | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=Chambre | first=Marie-Thérèse | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=Sister Miriam Teresa, Apostle of Unity | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1971 | month= | publisher=The Unity League | location=Mahwah, NJ | language= | id= | pages= | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=Maynard | first=Theodore | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=Great Catholics in American History | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1957 | month= | publisher=Hanover House | location=Garden City, NY | language= | id= | pages=235-242 | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=Blaško | first=Štefan | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=Miriam Teresa - Faithful in a Little | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1984 | month= | publisher=Maria - Magazine | location=Toronto | language= | pages= | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=Šencik, S.J.| first=Štefan | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=Kvet z Bardejovskích Záhdnov (Flowers of the Fields of Bardejov) | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1974 | month= | publisher= | location=Rome | language=Slovak | id= | pages= | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=Šencik, S.J.| first=Štefan | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=Ne Ceste Za Väcšou Dokonalostóu (Towards Greater Perfection) | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=1981 | month= | publisher= | location=Rome | language=Slovak | id= | pages= | chapter= | chapterurl= }} *{{cite book | last=Middleton | first=Kathleen M. | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=Bayonne Passages (from the "Images of America" Series) | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | format= | accessdate= | accessyear= | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year=2000 | month= | publisher=Arcadia | location=Charleston, SC | language= | id=ISBN 0-7524-0563-2 | pages=72-75 | chapter= | chapterurl= }} ===Articles=== *{{cite journal | author=Ward Miele | title=Documents for beatification sent to Congregation officials in Rome | journal=The Catholic Advocate | year= | volume= | issue=July 28, 2004 | pages= | url=http://www.rcan.org/advocatearchive/072804/news4.htm}} *{{cite journal | author=KAREN DEMASTERS | title=Q & A; This Saint May Take A While To March In | journal=NY Times | year= | volume= | issue=July 12, 1998 | pages= | url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F10FD3D550C718DDDAE0894D0494D81 }} *{{cite journal | author=Al Sullivan | title= One step closer to God: Bayonne native on path to possible sainthood | journal=The Hudson Reporter | year= | volume= | issue=November 8, 2004 | pages= | url=http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=12651767&BRD;=1291&PAG;=461&dept;_id=523584&rfi;=8 }} *{{cite journal | author=Brendan I. Koerner | title=Saint Makers | journal=US News and World Report | year= | volume= | issue=January 11, 1999 | pages= 52–60 | url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/990111/archive_000039.htm }} Demjanovich, Teresa Demjanovich, Teresa Demjanovich, Teresa