Soon-to-Be Saint Moved to Shrine
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Hundreds of worshipers lined up in St. Mary of the Woods to touch the coffin holding the remains of a 19th century Roman Catholic nun whom Pope Benedict XVI plans to canonize Oct. 15.
The body of Mother Theodore Guerin was carried to a shrine near the altar at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on the grounds of the school she founded as a French missionary to the American frontier. Her remains had been in a crypt beneath the church’s floor.
The ceremony fell less than two weeks before she will be canonized as a saint in Rome.
