Catherine Doherty
Religious order founder; Servant of God (1896–1985)
Who they were
Catherine de Hueck Doherty (née Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina; August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985) was a Russian-born Catholic activist who founded the Madonna House Apostolate in 1947. She was a pioneer in the struggle for interracial justice, spiritual writer, lecturer, and spiritual mother to priests and laity.
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The miracles
A cause for canonisation has been opened, which is what Servant of God means. Heroic virtue has not yet been declared and no miracle has been examined.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Madonna House Apostolate - Catherine Doherty — "Founded in 1947 in Combermere, Canada by Servant of God Catherine Doherty"; her cause was opened in the Diocese of Pembroke in 2000.
- Wikidata Q2028414 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Catherine Doherty (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.