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.Father Ignatius Spencer is pictured in an undated portrait. On Feb. 21, Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of Father Spencer, a 19th-century Passionist priest and a relative of Princes William and Harry through their mother, Princess Diana. (CNS photo/courtesy Passionists) Editors: best quality available. .Father Ignatius Spencer is pictured in an undated portrait. On Feb. 21, Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of Father Spencer, a 19th-century Passionist priest and a relative of Princes William and Harry through their mother, Princess Diana.(CNS photo/courtesy Passionists) Editors: best quality available. .Father John Kearns, the British Passionist provincial, prays in 2016 at the tomb of Father Ignatius Spencer at St. Anne and Blessed Dominic Church in St. Helens, England. On Feb. 21, Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of Father Spencer, a 19th-century Passionist priest
A CATHOLIC nun who helped bring education to the area and was buried in the grounds of a St Helens church has moved a step closer towards Sainthood as the Pope declared her Venerable . Mother Elizabeth Prout laboured in the slums of towns in the north west of England and in Manchester until she died aged 43 from tuberculosis in 1864. Elizabeth, who became known as the Mother Teresa of Manchester , was born in Shrewsbury in 1820, baptised as an Anglican, but was received into the Catholic faith in her early 20s by Blessed Dominic Barberi. At 28 she became a nun and a few years later was given a teaching post in some of the poorest areas of industrial Manchester, working largely among Irish migrants, women and children, and factory workers.
Elizabeth Prout (1820-1864). Courtesy of the Diocese of Shrewsbury.
CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2021 / 03:10 am (CNA).- An English Catholic bishop welcomed on Thursday a step forward in the sainthood cause of a religious sister who served poor communities ravaged by cholera and typhoid.
Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury said on Jan. 21 that it was fitting that Elizabeth Prout’s cause was progressing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The bishop made the comment on the day that Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of the nun known as the “Mother Teresa of Manchester,” meaning that she can now be called “Venerable.”
“It seems appropriate this announcement came during the pandemic when we can look to Elizabeth’s example and ask the help of her prayers as a woman who helped many during the epidemics which swept the industrial communities of Victorian England,” Davies said.