Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, SC was an American Ruthenian Greek Catholic Sister of Charity.
17 Facts About Teresa Demjanovich
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Teresa Demjanovich was born Teresa Demjanovich in Bayonne, New Jersey, on March 26,1901, the youngest of the seven children of Alexander Demjanovich and Johanna Suchy, Ruthenian immigrants to the United States from what is eastern Slovakia.
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Teresa Demjanovich received Baptism, Chrismation, and First Holy Communion in the Ruthenian Rite of her parents.
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Teresa Demjanovich completed her grammar school education by the age of eleven, and received her high school diploma in January 1917, from Bayonne High School.
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Teresa Demjanovich began her college career in September 1919, majoring in literature, and graduated with highest honors in June 1923.
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Teresa Demjanovich could be found kneeling in the college chapel at all hours and was very devoted to praying the rosary.
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Teresa Demjanovich was part of the Saint Vincent de Paul Parish choir, the Sodality of Our Lady, and a parish community associated with the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
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Teresa Demjanovich visited the Discalced Carmelite nuns in The Bronx, New York.
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Teresa Demjanovich planned to enter the convent on 2 February 1925, but her father caught a cold and died on 30 January.
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Teresa Demjanovich's entrance was delayed until 11 February 1925, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
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Teresa Demjanovich was admitted to the novitiate of the religious congregation and received the religious habit on 17 May 1925.
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Teresa Demjanovich never received an official transfer of rite, and remained a Byzantine Rite Catholic while serving as a religious sister in a Latin Church congregation.
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Teresa Demjanovich wrote 26 conferences which, after her death, were published in a book, Greater Perfection.
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Teresa Demjanovich was operated on for appendicitis on 6 May and died on 8 May 1927.
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Teresa Demjanovich's funeral was held 11 May 1927 at Holy Family Chapel in Convent Station, New Jersey, and she was buried at Holy Family Cemetery on the grounds of her order's motherhouse.
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On Thursday, May 10,2012, Teresa Demjanovich was proclaimed venerable by Pope Benedict XVI.
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Teresa Demjanovich was beatified at a ceremony on October 4,2014, held at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark.