a road near the Administration Building, surrounded by trees

Oh, if you could understand the…

Oh, if you could understand the feelings of a mother’s heart for a child which is not hers by nature but by grace – the feelings of the heart, I say for the temporal but more especially for the eternal happiness of her child – you would understand what I feel for you.

Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

Saint Mother Theodore Guerin founded the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 1840. She was born in France in 1798 and died in the United States in 1856, having lived the last 16 years of her life as a missionary teacher and healer in the Indiana wilderness. A strong leader and an even stronger woman of faith, Saint Mother Theodore and her many words of wisdom shared in her journals and letters continue to inspire people of today.